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