What context clues can you identify for the word trafficked? What do you think that trafficked might mean? Look up the meaning of trafficked and compare the dictionary definition with your guess. ABIGAIL: We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there's the whole of it.
PARRIS: Child. Sit you down.
ABIGAIL, quivering, as she sits: I would never hurt Betty. I love her dearly.
PARRIS: Now look you, child, your punishment will come in its time. But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it.
ABIGAIL: But we never conjured spirits.
PARRIS: Then why can she not move herself since midnight? This child is desperate! Abigail lowers her eyes. It must come out—my enemies will bring it out. Let me know what you done there. Abigail, do you understand that I have many enemies?