insepctor

• impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness
• speaks carefully, weightly
• looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking
• a chain of events
• my duty to ask questions
• its better to ask for the world than take it
• she wanted to end her life, she felt she couldnt go on any longer
• do us all a bit of good, if we sometimes we tried to put oursleves in the place of these young woman counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedroom
• a nice little promsing life there, i thought, and a nasty mess someones made of it
• there isnt as much difference as you think, often, if it was left to me, wouldnt know where to draw the line
• and was it the girls fault?
• you think women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things
• we know one young woman who wasnt. dont we
• a pretty lively sort of girl who never did anybody harm, but she died in miser and angony, hating life
• coolly; we often do on the young ones theyre more impressionable
• you neednt give me any rope
• your daughter isnt living on the moon
• public men have responibilities as well as privaliges
• you must have known what she was feeling, and you slammed the door in her face
• youre not even sorrt now when you know happened to the girls
• adjust family relationships
• he needs a drink now just to see him through
• he looks from one to the other of them carefully
• as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person. no, you wont forget
• you made her pay the heavy price for that. and now shell make you pay a heavier price still
• youre offering money at the wrong time
• he at least had some affection for her and made her happy for a time
• you cant do her any more harm and you cant do her any good now either
• there are millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths
• with their life, hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness all interwined with our lives, and what we think and do
• we are members of one body, we are responsible for eachother
• if men will not learn that lesson then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish