"'You gonna take me to jail?" asked the boy, bending over the sink. "Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere," said the woman. "Here I am trying to get home to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my pocketbook! Maybe you ain't been to your supper either, late as it be. Have you?" "There's nobody home at my house," said the boy. "Then we'll eat," said the woman. "I believe you're hungry—or been hungry—to try to snatch my pocketbook.'"
John Proctor is noble because he puts his commitment to the truth above all else, even though it will cost him a chance to live on with his wife and to know his child who hasn't yet been born.
