Eric

Question 1

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Answer 1

“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”

Question 2

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Answer 2

“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest
possible prices”

Question 3

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Answer 3

“it isn’t as if you can go and work somewhere else.”

Question 4

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Answer 4

“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough
luck.”

Question 5

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Answer 5

“I’d have let her stay”

Question 6

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Answer 6

“Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I
threatened to make a row”

Question 7

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Answer 7

“And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the
hellish thing.”

Question 8

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Answer 8

“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty
and a good sport-”

Question 9

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Answer 9

“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.”

Question 10

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Answer 10

“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble-
that’s why.”

Question 11

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Answer 11

“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-”

Question 12

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Answer 12

“He was our police inspector all right”

Question 13

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Answer 13

“(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and
that’s what matters-”