Eric Flashcards
Description
“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”
What should they try for
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest
possible prices”
Work
“it isn’t as if you can go and work somewhere else.”
Kept what
“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough
luck.”
He would have done what
“I’d have let her stay”
Threatened
“Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I
threatened to make a row”
Hellish
“And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the
hellish thing.”
Liked
“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty
and a good sport-”
Treated as a kid
“she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In
a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as
she was.”
Chap in trouble
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble-
that’s why.”
Turned her away
“Then- you killed her. She came to you to protect me- and you turned
her away-yes, and you killed her-and the child she’d have had too- my
child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn
you-”
Our inspector
“He was our police inspector all right”
Helped to kill
“(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and
that’s what matters-”
