act 3

• "I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty - and I threatened to make a row"-eric
• "I wasn't in love with her or anything - but I liked her"-eric
• "she didn't want me to marry her"-eric
• "you mean - you stole the money?"-inspector
• "ive got to cover this up as soon as I can"-mr birling
• "you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble"-eric
• "you killed her - and the child she'd have had too"-eric
• "but each of you helped to kill her"-inspector
• "there are millions and millions and millions of Eva smiths and John smiths still left with us"-inspector
• "we don't live alone we are members of one body we are responsible for each other"-inspector
• "we'll be taught it in fire and blood and anguish"-inspector
• "you're the one I blame for this"-mr birling (to Eric)
• "but now you're beginning all over again to pretend that nothing much has happened"-sheila
• "he was our police inspector all right"-eric
• "there isn't any such inspector we've been had"-gerald
• "everything we said had happened really had happened if it didn't end tragically then that's lucky for us but it might have done"-sheila
• "the famous younger generation who know it all and they can't even take a joke-"-mr birling
• the telephone rings sharply. There is a moments silence. Birling goes to answer it-stage directions
• "in the morning they'll be as amused as we are"-mrs birling
• as they stare guiltily and dumbfounded, the curtain falls-stage direactions