Sheila Birling Key quotes

• ‘A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited’
• (gaily, possesivley)
• ‘Yes, go on Mummy’
• ‘(half serious, half playful) yes- except for all last summer, when you never came near me,’
• ’is is the one you wanted me to have?’
• ‘Now I really feel engaged‘
• ’Oh-how horriblele! Was it an accident?’
• ‘What was she like?’ ‘Quite young?’ ’pretty?’
• ‘I think it was a mean thing to do’
• ‘These girls aren't cheap labour’
• ‘It was my own fault’
• ‘furious teper’
• ‘so Im really responsible?‘
• ‘I was very rude’
• ‘When did you first get to know her?’
• ‘(hands him the ring)’
• ‘You’re all just beginning to pretend again’
• ‘You knew it then. You began to know something. And now you’ve stopped’