him--whoever he was--give to him his just dues; also bestow upon the girls neither censure nor praise for the help which their organisms and temperaments necessarily afforded him. This meeting of apparitions, be it noted and remembered, took place immediately _before_ the sickness of the children came on, and during its session, the children were pinched, and thus first became "afflicted ones." On that Wednesday night "Abigail first became ill." "_Q._ Where was your master then? _A._ In _the other room_. _Q._ What time of night? _A._ A little before prayer-time. _Q._ What did this man say to you when he took hold of you? _A._ He say, Go into _the other room_ and see the children, and do hurt to them and pinch them. And then I went in and would not hurt them a good while; I would not hurt Betty; I loved Betty; but they haul me, and make me pinch Betty, and the next Abigail; and then quickly went away altogether a[fter] I had pinch them. _Q._ Did you go into that room in your own person, and all the rest? _A._ Yes; and my master did not see us, for they would not let my master see." Mr. Parris and the children seem from the above to have been in the same apartment that evening, for Tituba states that he was "in the other room," and her dictator said to her, "Go into the other room," and hurt the children. That the master of the house was present with his daughter and niece then, may be indicated also in the statement that "they would not let my master see;" for this implies that they were in his presence, though invisible. If she went to the room in her physical form--which is not stated, and is not probable--though she did go there in her "own _person_," the others went only as spirits or as apparitions; and they did not so enrobe or materialize themselves as to be visible by outward eyes, and therefore did not become visible to Mr. Parris--they "would not let" him see. The first infliction upon the children, therefore, was made in his very presence, but by invisible hands--spirit hands or apparitional hands--touching the spirit forms of the mediumistic little girls, and through their own inner forms reaching, paining, and convulsing their physical bodies. It is interesting to note that because Tituba "loved Betty," she was able to resist the pressure upon her "a good while;" but her feeble powers were incompetent to oppose unyielding and effectual resistance to the strong will of the producer of painful experiences. "_Q._ Did you go with the company? _A._ No. I staid, and the man staid with me. _Q._ What did he then to you? _A._ He tell me my master go to prayer, and he read in book, and he ask me what I remember: but don't you remember anything."