Putnam and Reverend Parris are discussing calling Reverend Hale: Putnam felt inclined to call Reverend Hale without consulting a meeting, in the middle of act one; he says, “I’m sick of meetings; cannot the man turn his head without he have a meeting?”(Miller 26)
Half way through act one, Abigail and Proctor confront each other, she is acting like a little girl having a fit because she can’t get what she wants; she says to him, “And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me john…”