PROCTOR: Abby, that’s a wild thing to say.
ABIGAIL: A wild thing may say wild things. But not so wild, I think. I have seen you since she put me out; I have seen you nights.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 1. Abigail’s animal nature and passionate and rebellious spirit is referred to when John Proctor calls her a "wild thing." This distinguishes Abby from Salem’s other more tame and compliant Puritan women. It was likely a part of Abby that originally attracted the married Proctor to her. Abby in her response to John makes clear that she wants to renew her affair with him, but he is not yet aware of the lengths she will go to realize this.