Rebecca Nurse

REBECCA, sitting: I think she’ll wake in time. Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she’ll wake when she tires of it. A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Rebecca Nurse is a smart woman, that doesn't want to make a big fuss about what's going on with the girls. People look up to her, and she has a good reputation overall.

HALE: It’s strange how I knew you, but I suppose you look as such a good soul should. We have all heard of your great charities in Beverly.

Reverend Hale had said he heard about the good things she had done. Rebecca Nurse is the type of person others go to when they have a problem. It can be inferred that she is a good problem solver. Other people obviously respect her, and take her advice.

Rebecca was the wife of Francis Nurse, who, from all accounts, was one of those men for whom both sides of the argument had to have respect. As for Rebecca herself, the general opinion of her character was so high that to explain how anyone dared cry her out for a witch—and more, how adults could bring themselves to lay hands on her.