I think you must go to Salem, John. I think so. You must tell them it is a fraud.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 2. Elizabeth urges John to go to Salem and expose Abigail as a fraud. In the previous act Abby assured John that she and the girls were just dancing in the woods and Betty’s illness had nothing to do with witchcraft: "We were dancin’ in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped in on us. She took fright, is all." Elizabeth reminds John of the seriousness of the situation, with four judges being sent from Boston to try people for witchcraft and fourteen in jail who will be hanged unless they confess.