Week 3 Mr.B And Shiela

Question 1

Labour costs

Answer 1

‘Well, it’s my duty to keep labour costs down, and if I’d agreed to this demand for a new rate we’d have added about twelve per cent to our labour costs.’

Question 2

Ask for the Earth

Answer 2

“If you don’t come down hard on these people they’d soon be asking for the earth.”

Question 3

Golf questioning

Answer 3

‘I didn’t suppose you did.’ (about golf)

Question 4

Not about shiela

Answer 4

‘Nothing to do with you, Sheila. Run along’

Question 5

Mrs. B about shiela

Answer 5

(to Mrs Birling) What’s the matter with that child?’

Question 6

Incriminate themselves

Answer 6

‘And I do not propose to give you much more rope’

Question 7

Shielas involvement

Answer 7

‘A young unmarried girl is being dragged into this-‘

Question 8

Shiela and geralds dissaperence

Answer 8

‘Yes – except for all last summer, when you never came near me, and I wondered what had happened to you.’

Question 9

Shiela follows gerald

Answer 9

‘(Excited) Oh – Gerald – you’ve got it – is it the one [ring] you wanted me to have?’

Question 10

Beatiful ring and love

Answer 10

‘Oh-its wonderful! Look- Mummy- isn’t it a beauty? Oh - darling - [She kisses Gerald hastily]’