Inspectors do call, yes

Question 1

When Crofts…

Answer 1

When Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together for lower costs and higher prices. pg 4

Question 2

I think.. …men

Answer 2

I think Sheila and I had better go into the drawing room and leave you men. pg 5

Question 3

I speak…

Answer 3

I speak as a hard headed business man. pg 6

Question 4

Half-civilised

Answer 4

Half-civilised folks in the Balkans. pg 6

Question 5

There… …war

Answer 5

There isn’t a chance of war. pg 6

Question 6

A man… …too, of course

Answer 6

A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too of course. pg 9

Question 7

But the way… …like bees in a hive

Answer 7

But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive. pg 10

Question 8

Community…

Answer 8

Community and all that nonsense. pg 10

Question 9

I was an alderman…

Answer 9

I was an alderman for years - and Lord Mayor two years ago - and I’m still on the Bench. pg 11

Question 10

Yes, yes. horrid…

Answer 10

Yes, yes. Horrid business. But I don’t understand why you should come here, Inspector. pg 12

Question 11

…wretched girls suicide

Answer 11

Obviously it has nothing whatever to do with the wretched girls suicide. pg 13

Question 12

If we were… …awkward, wouldn’t it?

Answer 12

If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward wouldn’t it? pg 14

Question 13

…costs down

Answer 13

Well its my duty to keep labour costs down. pg 15

Question 14

…asking for the Earth

Answer 14

If you don’t come down on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the Earth. pg 15

Question 15

…look for cheap labour

Answer 15

If there weren’t, the factories and warehouses wouldn’t know where to look for cheap labour. pg 19

Question 16

It would do us all a bit…

Answer 16

It would do us all a bit of good if we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedrooms. pg 20

Question 17

…responsible?

Answer 17

So i’m really responsible? pg 23