PROCTOR: You will not go to court again, Mary Warren.
MARY WARREN: I must tell you, sir, I will be gone every day now. I am amazed you do not see what weighty work we do.
PROCTOR: What work you do! It’s strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 2. In this act we witness Mary Warren’s transformation from a shy and timid serving girl for the Proctors to an outspoken and assertive young woman of power. This follows her involvement in the witch trials. She boasts with pride of the "weighty work" she and the other girls are doing to help drive the Devil out of Salem. But the irony is, and Proctor sees it, the "work" she is doing is helping to hang vulnerable women like beggar Sarah Osburn.