Act 1

• 'A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family, too of course, when he has one'
• 'Yes, but it didn't seem to be anything terrible at the time. Don't you understand?'
• 'After all, it's better to ask for the Earth than to take it'
• 'She was the right type'
• 'She was a pretty girl too - with big dark eyes - and that didn't make it any better'
• 'The way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think anybody has to look after everybody (...) like bees in a hive'
• 'But I felt rotten about it'