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Sheila
A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited
Sheila
Yes, go on, Mummy
Sheila
(rather distressed) I can’t help thinking about this girl- destroying herself so horribly- and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn’t told me.
Sheila
But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people
Sheila
She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.
Sheila
I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very impertinent – and – and -
Sheila
And if I could help her now, I would-
Sheila
I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go there again
Sheila
Why- you fool- he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see
Sheila
You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse when he does
Sheila
No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves
Sheila
Bitterly ”I suppose we’re all nice people now”
Sheila
“He inspected us all right.”
Sheila
“It frightens me the way you talk”
Inspector on Eva Smith/Daisy Renton
“Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary. She’d been taken there this afternoon because she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course”
Mr B on Eva Smith/Daisy Renton
“Now – about this girl, Eva Smith. I remember her quite well now. She was a lively good-looking girl – country-bred, I fancy – and she’d been working in one of our shops for over a year. A good worker too.”
Sheila on Eva Smith
“She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.”
Inspector on Eva Smith
“…and died, after several hours of agony…”
Gerald on Daisy Renton
“She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life- you understand?”
Mrs B on Eva Smith
“She was giving herself ridiculous airs…claiming elaborate fine feelings…that were simply absurd in a girl in her position.”