Sheila Flashcards
“Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited”
“Look - mummy - isn’t it beautiful?” Act 1
“I think it was a mean thing to do. Perhaps that spoilt everything for her” Act 1
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people” Act 1
“Because I was in a furious temper” Act 1
“I caught sight of her smiling at the assistant” Act 1
“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody” Act 1
“I know I’m to blame - and I’m desperately sorry” Act 2
“You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here” Act 2
“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse when he does” Act 2
“Mother, I think it was cruel and vile” Act 2
“He’s giving us the ropes - so that we’ll hang ourselves” Act 2
“But that won’t bring Eva Smith back to life” Act 3
“I suppose we’re all nice people now” Act 3
“let’s not start dodging and pretending now. Between us we drove that girl to suicide” Act 3