"They might have supposed that Tituba and friendless Sarah Good tormented them--but since then, there has not been more than one part of delusion to twenty parts of wickedness.

Why, can any sane man suppose that she-wolf sister-in-law of mine does not know she is lying, when she brings such horrible charges against the best men and women in Salem ?" "No, I give up Mistress Ann, she is possessed by a lying devil," admitted Master Raymond.
"It is well she does not hear that speech," said Joseph Putnam.
"Why ?" "Because, up to this time, you seem to have managed to soften her heart a little." "I have tried to.

I have thought myself justified in playing a part--as King David once did you know." "It is that which brings me here.

I met her at the house of a friend whom I called to see on some business a day or two ago." "Ah!" "She said to me, in that soft purring voice of hers, 'Brother Joseph, I hear that your good friend Master Raymond is still in Boston.' I answered that I believed he was.

'When he took leave of me,' she continued, 'I advised him not to stay long in that town--as it was often a bad climate for strangers.