Gerald Croft Flashcards
Description
“An attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but
very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town”
Marriage
“Well, it came just at the right moment. That was clever of you, Gerald.”
Comment on Eva Smith’s firing
“You couldn’t have done anything else” (sacking Eva Smith)
Citizens
“After all, y’know, we’re respectable citizens and not criminals”
About shelia
“She’s obviously had about as much as she can stand”
Why stay
“Why should you [stay]? It’s bound to be unpleasant and disturbing”
Place of prostitution
“It’s a favourite haunt of women of the town”
How daisy renton/ eva smith looked at gearald
‘[Daisy] gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help”
His first interaction with Daisy renton
“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”
Gearald’s description of daisy
“She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful. I
became at once the most important person in her life- you understand?
What did daisy tell gerald
“She told me she’d been happier than she’d ever been before”
What a man would do
“Nearly any man would have done” (adored being ‘fairy prince’)
Comment on inspector
“That man wasn’t a police officer…I’m almost certain”
Girl in photo
“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”
Re proposal
“Everything’s all right now Sheila. What about this ring?”
