Quotations

Question 1

Unsinkable

Answer 1

Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

Question 2

Bees

Answer 2

As if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive- community and all that nonesense

Question 3

Earth

Answer 3

It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it

Question 4

Cheap

Answer 4

But these girls aren’t cheap labour. They’re people

Question 5

Rotten

Answer 5

I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse.

Question 6

Sorry

Answer 6

I know I’m to blame and I’m desperately sorry

Question 7

Impressionable

Answer 7

We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable.

Question 8

Class

Answer 8

Girls of that class

Question 9

Felt

Answer 9

I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me

Question 10

Impertinently

Answer 10

I didn’t like her manner, she’d impertinently made use of our name

Question 11

Ashamed

Answer 11

I did nothing I’m ashamed of

Question 12

Blame

Answer 12

I blame the young man. He ought to be dealt with very severely.

Question 13

Hushing

Answer 13

No hushing up, eh?

Question 14

Chap

Answer 14

You’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he’s in trouble

Question 15

Millions

Answer 15

Millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths left with us

Question 16

Members

Answer 16

We are members of one body

Question 17

Anguish

Answer 17

…the time will soon come when if a man won’t learn that lesson he will learn in fire, blood and anguish

Question 18

Pretend

Answer 18

You’re beginning to pretend as if nothing’s really happened at all

Question 19

Fightens

Answer 19

It frightens me the way you talk