Sheila Birling Quotes Flashcards
“A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather
excited”
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“Yes, go on, Mummy”
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“(rather distressed) I can’t help thinking about this girl- destroying
herself so horribly- and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you
hadn’t told me.”
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“But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.”
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“She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.”
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“I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very
impertinent – and – and - ”
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“And if I could help her now, I would-”
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“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go
there again”
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“Why- you fool- he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see.”
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“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse when he does”
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“No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves”
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Bitterly ”I suppose we’re all nice people now”
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“He inspected us all right.”
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“It frightens me the way you talk”
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