To me, the thing that Elizabeth Proctor does that best shows that she loves her husband John is when she lets him die at the end of the play.
This seems kind of weird to say that -- that she loves him so she lets him die, but here's why I think that. John has been miserable for a while. He has felt guilty and he has felt like he is not a good person. At the end of the play, she lets him die because he now has his good name and his feeling that he is a good person. She does not want to take that away from him.
To me, this shows love -- she does not want to do something that will take away his feeling of being a good person.
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