At the beginning of act 2, “Elizabeth is heard softly singing to the children”. After Proctor sits to eat some rabbit stew Elizabeth made, “‘It hurt my heart to strip her, poor rabbit’”. She doesn’t like to upset others as seen later in act 3, “She doesn’t want friction, and yet she must”. “...fearing to anger him...”. Proctor says something angrily and as a defense mechanism, she puts up an emotional barrier and becomes cold, “Hurt, and very coldly”. “A little loftily”. She values Proctor and their boys, “‘I never thought you but a good man, John…’”. Close to the end of act 3, Elizabeth lies about her husband being an adulterer, “‘She only thought to save my name!’”. Again, “Elizabeth is heard softly singing to the children”. She probably wouldn’t if she wasn’t fond of them. At the end of act 2, Elizabeth is arrested, “‘When the children wake, speak nothing of witchcraft - it will frighten them’”. Lastly, she can feel how distant she and Proctor are and how broken their relationship is. “A sense of their separation rises”. “...she has suddenly lost all faith in