When Abigail and John Proctor speak privately in Act One, she makes it pretty clear that they did have, at least, a physical relationship when she worked for him and his wife. She reminds him of how he "clutched [her] back behind [his] house and sweated like a stallion whenever [she] came near." In other words, they had a sexual affair.
However, her words also let us know that this affair has been over for...
When Abigail and John Proctor speak privately in Act One, she makes it pretty clear that they did have, at least, a physical relationship when she worked for him and his wife. She reminds him of how he "clutched [her] back behind [his] house and sweated like a stallion whenever [she] came near." In other words, they had a sexual affair.
However, her words also let us know that this affair has been over for some time. Abigail insists that she's been "waitin' for [him] every night," and he promises that "[he'll] not be comin' for [her] more." We learned earlier from Reverend Parris, her uncle, that the Proctors dismissed her seven months ago. More interestingly, though, is that Proctor seems to still have feelings for Abigail. She claims that he loved her when Elizabeth dismissed her from their employ, and that "[he] do[es] now." He admits that "[he] may think of [her] softly from time to time" and that he "may have looked up" at her window once or twice. This makes it seem as though it was not just a sexual relationship that they had but an emotionally intimate one as well.
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