They have broken into a woman's house without asking her, doing so on the grounds of Justice. Mrs. Phillips responds: "But Mrs. Hale, the law is the law."
Mrs. Hale half-heartedly acquiesces: "I s'pose 'tis."
As Mrs. Wright's former exuberant character is evoked and the contrast to her consequent dismal experiences made clear, Mrs. Peter's adherence to the law is shaken and she refrains from impeding her friend from destroying the clues:
MRS. PETERS
Oh, what are you doing, Mrs. Hale?
MRS. HALE [Mildly.]
Just pulling out a stitch or two that's not sewed very good. [Threading a needle.] Bad sewing always made me fidgety.
MRS. PETERS [Nervously.]
I don't think we ought to touch things.
MRS. HALE
I'll just finish up this end. [Suddenly stopping and leaning forward.]
Later on, when discovering the dead bird, Mrs. Peters reflects on her childhood experience of a boy killing her own pet with a hatchet. She instinctively realizes that had she been there at that moment nothing would have stopped her from hurting him and, possibly, whether intentionally or not, killing him.
There was no difference then between her and Mrs. Wright. And more so, Mrs. Wright had had to endure long and drawn out years of unbearable loneliness and anguish from a husband who moment after moment, day after day without respite...
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