She had retired to her bed; but he was admitted to her chamber, where he read the warrant for her apprehension.

He allowed her till morning, however, placing guards around the house that she might not escape.

Knowing that such an accusation generally meant conviction and death, "she arose calmly in the morning, attended the family prayers, spoke to a near relative of the best plan for the education of her children, kissed them with great composure, amid their agony of cries and tears, and then told the officer that she was ready to die." On her examination the usual scene ensued, and the usual falsehoods were told.

Perhaps the "afflicted girls" were a little more bitter than they would have been, had she not laughed outright at a portion of their testimony.

She was a very nice person in her habits, and it was testified against her, that being out one day in the streets of Salem walking around on visits to her friends during a whole morning, notwithstanding the streets were exceedingly sloppy and muddy, it could not be perceived that her shoes and white stockings were soiled in the least.