In the excerpt located on pages 1033 to 1035, Abigail Williams, Mercy Lewis, and Mary Warren gather and converse in the bedroom of an ill Betty Parris to form a consistent story about the events that occurred in the forest, prior to the ailments of Betty Parris and Ruth Putnam. Abby initiates the conversation in hope to evade any possible inconsistencies in each girl's story, that would lead to the group receiving any sort of punishment. The conversation begins between Abby and Mercy. Abby informs Mercy that if questioned Mercy must say that the girls on danced while in the forest and nothing else. Abby also tells Mercy that Reverend Parris say Mercy in the woods naked and that Tituba, who also played a part with the group in the forest,
