Answer:
Abigail and Mercy, the Putnams' servants, try to wake Betty. Abigail tells Mercy what to say when she is questioned about what she was doing in the woods. She informs Mercy that Parris knows they were dancing in the woods. Abigail Williams and other young girls of Salem get caught messing with witchcraft in the forest. Afraid of severe punishments, they claim to have simply been dancing. Young Betty, the 10-year-old daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris, has a fever and is talking of witchery.