"Danforth: ...However, if I should tell you now that I will let her be kept another month;and if she begin to show her natural signs, you shall have her living yet another year until she is delivered -- what say you to that? (John Proctor is struck silent.) Come now. You say your only purpose is to save your wife. Good, then, she is saved at least this year, and a year is long. What say you, sir? It is done now. (In conflict, Proctor glances at Francis and Giles.) Will you drop this charge?

Proctor: I--I think I cannot." -pg. 92

Act III

Societal