You were alone with her?…Why, then, it is not as you told me…John, you are not open with me. You saw her with a crowd, you said.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 2. Elizabeth’s jealousy of Proctor’s former mistress Abigail bubbles up to the surface, when she learns that he has not been entirely honest. Despite previously assuring her that he met Abby in a crowd, Elizabeth now learns that he was alone with her. She angrily questions him about this.