Act 2

• We often do on the young ones, they're more impressionable
• you're behaving like a hysterical child tonight
• Your daughter isn’t living on the moon, she’s here in Brumley too
• I’ve told you before, I don’t like your tone nor the way you’re handling this enquiry. and I don’t propose to give you much more rope
• No he’s giving us the rope - so that will hang ourselves
• I think we’ve just about come to the end of this wretched business
•  You mustn’t try build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. if you do, then the inspector will just break it down
• I consider I did my duty
• Public men, Mr birling, have public responsibilities as well as privileges
• Yes. I suppose it was inevitable. she was young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely grateful. i become at once the most important person in her life - you understand?
• Naturally that prejudice me against her case