HALE, shocked: You cannot! PROCTOR: Elizabeth, you bewilder him! ELIZABETH, to Hale: HALE: And you, woman? ELIZABETH: I-I cannot believe it. HALE: Then you do not believe- PROCTOR: I have no knowledge of it the Bible speaks of witches, and I will not deny them. There be witches in the world-although I cannot believe they come among I know not what I have said, I may have said it. Is that true, sir? PROCTOR, he knows this is critical, and is striving against his disgust with Hale and with himself for even answering: It's said you hold noīelief that there may even be witches in the world. With me now, for I have a rumor that troubles me. HALE, quietly- it has impressed him: Proctor, let you open I think that's in your mind, is it not? (II.219-232) PROCTOR: It may be I have been too quick to bring the man to book, but you cannot think we ever desired the destruction of religion. Hale? HALE: No, no, I have no- Proctor: I nailed the roof upon the church, I hung the door- HALE: Oh, did you! That's a good sign, then.
PROCTOR, flushed with resentment but trying to smile: What's your suspicion, Mr. The man's ordained, therefore the light of God is in him. HALE: How comes it that only two are baptized? PROCTOR, starts to speak, then stops, then, as though unable to restrain this: I like it not that Mr. Tell me-you have three children? PROCTOR: Aye. HALE, thinks, then: And yet, Mister, a Christian on Sabbath Day must be in church. I think, sometimes, the man dreams cathedrals, not clapboard meetin' houses. I labor the earth from dawn of day to blink of night, and I tell you true, when I look to heaven and see my money glaring at his elbows-it hurt my prayer, sir, it hurt my prayer. But Parris came, and for twenty week he preach nothin' but golden candlesticks until he had them. HALE: What golden candlesticks? PROCTOR: Since we built the church there were pewter candlesticks upon the altar Francis Nurse made them, y’know, and a sweeter hand never touched the metal. PROCTOR: It does, sir, it does and it tells me that a minister may pray to God without he have golden candlesticks upon the altar. Proctor, your house is not a church your theology must tell you that.
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