DORCAS WORDELL
(off stage, left).
Tabitha Brett! Tabitha Brett! Where are you?

TABITHA
(calling in answer).
Here, Dorcas, here! Renounce Wilton and I are gathering berries.

DORCAS
(entering excitedly).
You'll gather no more berries when you've heard the news. Sure, there
be stirring things afoot this day in Salem. What dost think? Barbara
Williams hath been bewitched!

RENOUNCE.
Dorcas!

DORCAS
(importantly).
Aye, since yesternight she hath clean disappeared. The evening meal was
set: she did not come. They have searched the woods, and the marshland,
and the roadways. 'Tis plain she hath been spirited away, and Goodwife
Abigail Williams is nigh out of her mind. But now that they've found
the witch----

TABITHA
(eagerly).
Found her----

DORCAS