Eric birling

• ‘In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive’
• ‘squiffy’ -
• ‘My God’
• ‘I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty’
• ‘I wasn’t in love with her’
• ‘and thats when it happened - and thats the hellish thing - I don’t even remember’
• ‘not the kind of father a chap can turn to when he’s introuble’
• ‘she didnt want to marry me’
• ‘I insisted’
• ‘The girls still dead isn’t she’
• ‘I did what I did’
• ‘I agree with Sheila’
• ‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages’
• ‘It’s what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters’
• You killed her’
• ‘we did her in all right’
• ‘moneys not the important thing’