Before the first chapter in the book The Crucible Elizabeth already knows about the past affair that her husband and Abigail had. John hurt his relationship with his wife and left a scar that will never be healed between the. In the book it is clear that Elizabeth is hurt by the past affair of her husband and Abigail Williams, She is always bringing it up to John and doubting him when he leaves the house. In act Four John and Elizabeth are in a jail cell in the Salem jail, And Elizabeth tells John that she wants him living. And John states “I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud. I am not that man, my honesty is broke, Nothing is spoiled by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before.” And Elizabeth says that before she can forgive him, he must forgive his self, she will not forgive him because she says she has read her heart in the past three months, she says she has her own sins to count and it would take a cold women to promote lechery. And Elizabeth tells John to take her sins with him while he is executed, and she tells John that she did not know how to tell John the love she had for him, she kept a cold house by holding it