Read the excerpt and answer the question. ABIGAIL: Uncle, the rumor of witchcraft is all about; I think you’d best go down and deny it yourself. The parlor’s packed with people, sir. I’ll sit with her. PARRIS: Abigail, I cannot go before the congregation when I know you have not opened with me. What did you do with her in the forest? ABIGAIL: We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there’s the whole of it. PARRIS: Now look you, child, your punishment will come in its time. But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest, I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it. ABIGAIL: But we never conjured spirits. What was Miller’s purpose for including this interaction between Abigail and Parris? to show Parris began the witchcraft hysteria to show Parris and Abigail conspired together to show Abigail attempting to right her wrongs to show the doubt Parris initially had about Abigail
