Danforth calls Reverend Parris "a brainless man" because he has allowed himself to be hoodwinked by his seventeen year-old niece, Abigail Williams. Parris has just confessed that she vanished three days ago, telling him that she was spending the night at a friend's house. However, the friend told her own family she was staying with Abigail. Before they left, though, his daughter overheard them "speaking of ships" and they broke into his safe and stole...
Danforth calls Reverend Parris "a brainless man" because he has allowed himself to be hoodwinked by his seventeen year-old niece, Abigail Williams. Parris has just confessed that she vanished three days ago, telling him that she was spending the night at a friend's house. However, the friend told her own family she was staying with Abigail. Before they left, though, his daughter overheard them "speaking of ships" and they broke into his safe and stole his life's savings.
Parris tries not to cry but he cannot help it, and Danforth seems to blame Parris for this turn of events. Parris argues that "it profit nothing [to] blame [him]" because Abigail likely feared rebellion in the town due to the increasing unpopularity of the trials and ran away for this reason.
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