Brown was astonished to see the lady and to see that she was on her way to the witch meeting. When the old man disappears, Brown refuses to go any further. He will not follow the old lady to be with the devil. When Brown arrived at the meeting he started to hear familiar voices from his neighborhood. Brown recognized a voice in the crown as Faith, his wife.
Faith is swept away with the crowd into evil.
He now realizes his wife was gone and beckons the devil to come for the world because there is on good left on earth. A crowd of familiar faces gathered saints and sinners and everyone was friendly with each other, singing, dancing and Brown still did not see his wife. Brown realizes that those who are thought to be holy have sinned and evil is the nature of mankind. Brown and Faith seemed to be the only two that had not gone over to the side of evil. The shape of evil prepared to baptize them.