In Act One, when her uncle, Reverend Parris, asks about Abigail's reputation in town, she promises that her name is good. She insists that Elizabeth Proctor "hates [her]" because Abigail "would not be her slave." She calls Elizabeth a "lying, cold, sniveling woman" who she cannot abide working for. When Parris says that he thinks it's strange that she was dismissed from the Proctors' service seven months prior, and yet no one else has ever called to hire her since then, she says that "Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar" who has been spreading untrue rumors about her in the village.
Later, when Abigail is speaking with John Proctor (still in Act One), Elizabeth's husband, with whom she was having an affair when Elizabeth dismissed her, she blames Elizabeth for firing her, and she also refers to her as his "sickly wife" before John cuts her off.
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