Gerald Croft Flashcards
1.
“An attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town”
2.
“Well, it came just at the right moment. That was clever of you, Gerald.”
3.
“You couldn’t have done anything else” (sacking Eva Smith)
4.
“After all, y’know, we’re respectable citizens and not criminals”
5.
(about Sheila): “She’s obviously had about as much as she can stand”
6.
“Why should you [stay]? It’s bound to be unpleasant and disturbing”
7.
“It’s a favourite haunt of women of the town”
8.
‘[Daisy] gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help”
9.
“I insisted on Daisy moving into these rooms and I made her take some
money to keep her going there…I want you to understand that I didn’t install her there so I could make love to her…I was sorry for her…I
didn’t ask for anything in return”
10.
“She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life- you understand?”
11.
“She told me she’d been happier than she’d ever been before”
12.
“Nearly any man would have done” (adored being ‘fairy prince’)
13.
“That man wasn’t a police officer…I’m almost certain”
14.
“But how do you know it’s the same girl? … We’ve no proof it was the same photograph and therefore no proof it was the same girl”
15.
“Everything’s all right now Sheila. What about this ring?”
