Sheila Act 1

• ‘Don’t be an ass Eric’
• ‘Apart from all last summer when you never came near me.’
• ‘She’s got a nasty temper sometimes’
• ‘Is this the one you wanted me to have?’
• ‘Now I really feel engaged.’
• ‘Look mummy, isn’t it a beauty?’
• ‘What’s all this about streets?’
• ‘Oh how horrible!’
• I can’t help thinking about this girl – destroying herself so 1.      horribly…’
• ‘You talk as if we were responsible.’
• ‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.’
• ‘I felt rotten about it at the time.’
• ‘I was in a furious temper’
• ‘if they didn’t get rid of that girl’
• ‘she was the right type for it just as I was the wrong type’
• I caught sight of this girl smiling at Miss Francis’
• ‘ she was pretty and looked like she could take care of herself’
• ‘ she was pretty and looked like she could take care of herself’
• ‘So I’m really responsible?’
• ‘If I could help her now, I would.’
• ‘It’s the only time I’ve ever done anything like that, and I’ll never, never do it again.’