Shelia Quotes Flashcards
Shelia Description.
“A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.”
Shelia being childish.
“Yes, go on, Mummy.”
Sheila’s thoughts.
“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.”
Sheila opinion on working class.
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people.”
Sheila opinion on Eva Smith’s looks
“She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.”
What Sheila said to Eva Smith’s manager.
“I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very impertinent - and - and .”
Sheila saying about Eva Smith if she was alive.
“And if I could help her now, I would-.”
Sheila’s change in view.
“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go there again.”
Sheila explaining to family about Inspector.
“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.”
Sheila saying about the Inspector’s power.
“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”
Sheila saying about Inspector’s method.
“No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves”
Sheila being sarcastic.
“I suppose we’re all nice people now.”
Another quote about the Inspector’s method.
“He inspected us all right.”
Sheila talking to her parents.
“It frightens me the way you talk”
