Gerald

• Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town.'


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• ...I insist upon being one of the family now. I've been trying long enough, haven't I?'


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• And I drink to you - and hope I can make you as happy as you deserve to be.'


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• You seem to be a nice well-behaved family-'


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• You couldn't have done anything else.'


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• ...we're respectable citizens and not criminals.'


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• I'm sorry, Sheila. But it was all over and done with, last summer. I hadn't set eyes on the girl for at least six months. I don't come into this suicide business.'


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• Inspector, I think Miss Birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning.'


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• You've been through it - and now you want to see somebody else put through it.'


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• I met her first, sometime in March last year, in the stalls bar at the Palace.'


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• It's a favourite haunt of women of the town.'


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• She was very pretty - soft brown hair and big dark eyes-'


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• The girl saw me looking at her and then gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help.'

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• I insisted on Daisy moving into those rooms and I made her take some money to keep her going there.'


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• I became at once the most important person in her life...'

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• I didn't feel about her as she felt about me.'


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• That man wasn't a police officer.'


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• Did we? Who says so? Because I say - there's no more real evidence we [drove that girl to commit suicide] than there was that that chap was a police inspector.'


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• But how do you know it's the same girl?'

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• We've no proof it was the same photograph...'

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• We can settle that at once...By ringing up the Infirmary. Either there's a dead girl there or there isn't.'


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• Well, you see, while I was out of the house I'd time to cool off and think things out a little.'


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