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”
Right moment
“Well, it came just at the right moment. That was clever of you,
Gerald.”
Couldnt have done anything else
“You couldn’t have done anything else” (sacking Eva Smith)
Respectable
“After all, y’know, we’re respectable citizens and not criminals”
Described that she had too much
(about Sheila): “She’s obviously had about as much as she can stand”
Disturbing
“Why should you [stay]? It’s bound to be unpleasant and disturbing”
Prostitutes
“It’s a favourite haunt of women of the town”
Glance of help
‘[Daisy] gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help”
Asks ther to move in
“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”
Description of Daisy Renton
“She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful. I
became at once the most important person in her life-
