I never sold myself! I’m a good girl! I’m a proper girl!
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 1. Abigail is pressed by Hale on what she is concealing and whether she sold herself to Lucifer. Denying at first that she took part in witchcraft and describing herself as "proper," Abigail proves to be a compulsive liar in the first act. Describing herself as "good girl" is an example of dramatic irony, since we know that she slept with a married man, which was not good or proper in Puritan society.