Sheilas connection

• Sheila originally comparing herself to Eva


  Sheila: (rather distressed) Sorry! It's just that I can't help thinking about this girl – destroying herself so horribly – and I’ve been so happy tonight.
• Inspector explaining what happened to Eva after being fired

  Inspector: She was out of work for the next two months. Both her parents were dead, so that she'd no home to go back to. And she hadn't been able to save much out of what Birling and Company had paid her. So that after two months, with no work, no money coming in, and living in lodgings, with no relatives to help her, few friends, lonely, half-starved, she was feeling desperate. 
• Sheila explaining girls

  Sheila: But these girls aren't cheap labour – they're people. 
• Sheila being shown the photo

  [The Inspector] moves nearer a light – perhaps a standard lamp – and [Sheila] crosses to him. He produces the photograph. She looks at it closely, recognizes it with a little cry, gives a half-stifled sob, and then runs out. 
• respectable citizens and criminals

  Gerald: After all, y'know, we're respectable citizens and not criminals.  

  Inspector: Sometimes there isn't as much difference as you think. Often, if it was left to me, I wouldn't know where to draw the line. 
• Sheila feeling rotten

  Sheila: I've told my father – he didn't seem to think it amounted to much – but I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse. Did it make much difference to her? 

   
• Sheila asking about responsibility

  Sheila: (miserably) So I’m really responsible? 
• Sheila and Milwards

  Sheila: (stormily) It's the only time I’ve ever done anything like that, and I’ll never, never do it again to anybody.  I've noticed them giving me a sort of look sometimes at Milwards – I noticed it even this afternoon – and I suppose some of them remember. I feel now I can never go there again. Oh – why had this to happen? 
• Sheila siding with the inspector rather than Gerald

  Gerald: Yes. We can keep it from him. 

  Sheila: (laughs rather hysterically) why – you fool – he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet. You'll see. You'll see.