Elizabeth Proctor knows that her husband, John, was having an affair with Abigail Williams some seven months prior when Abigail worked for their family. In fact, this is why she dismissed Abigail from their service. Now, the accusations made by Abigail and her friends are growing quickly, and yet Abigail had told John privately, on the day Betty Parris took sick and the accusations began, that Betty wasn't witched, that she'd only been frightened by her father. John failed to share this information with anyone in authority at the time, and Elizabeth exhorts him to make it public now. John doesn't seem to want to, and this prompts Elizabeth to suggest that he might, perhaps, still have some feelingd for Abigail and that this is why he doesn't want to come forward with information that would get her in trouble. Elizabeth believes that he doesn't want to speak up because it would hurt Abigail for him to share what she told him.
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