Sheila Birling

Question 1

You’re squiffy

Answer 1

… Don’t be an ass Éric

Question 2

Look-mummy-

Answer 2

Isn’t it a beauty?

Question 3

We can’t leave it at that

Now listen darling

Answer 3

No that’s no use

Question 4

Yes.

Answer 4

That’s true

Question 5

Nothing but morbid curiosity

Answer 5

No it isn’t

Question 6

Mother, dont-please don’t. For your own

Answer 6

Sake as well as ours, you mustnt

Question 7

Well we

Answer 7

Didn’t think you meant Buckingham Palace

Question 8

Everyone knows about horrible old

Answer 8

Meggarty…

Sheila!

Question 9

Just what

Answer 9

I was going to ask

Question 10

You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here

Answer 10

Don’t interfere, please, father

Question 11

Mother,

Answer 11

I think it was cruel and vile

Question 12

(with sudden alarm) Mother-stop-stop!

Answer 12

But don’t you see-

Question 13

(recognises it with a little cry

Answer 13

Gives a half stifled sob)

Question 14

And it just suited her

Answer 14

She was a very pretty girl too…. I was very rude to both of them… If she’d been some miserable plain little creature

Question 15

But that won’t

Answer 15

Bring Eva Smith back to life will it?

Question 16

Everything we said happened

Answer 16

Really had happened. If it didn’t end tragically, that’s lucky for us. But it might have done

Question 17

You knew it then

Answer 17

You began to learn something. And now you’ve stopped. You’re ready to go on in the old same way.

Question 18

These girls aren’t cheap labour

Answer 18

They’re people

Question 19

No, that’s not

Answer 19

Fair Éric