Sheila Birling

• "Yes go on mummy, you must drink out health"
• "I should jolly well think not, Gerald. I'd hate you to know all about port - like one of these purple faced old men"
• "(excited) Oh Gerald, you've got it, is it the one you wanted me to have?"
• "Oh it's wonderful! Look mummy, isn't it a beauty?"
• "I'm sorry daddy. Actually, I was listening"
• "Oh - how horrible! Was it an accident?"
• "(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"
• "What do you mean by saying that? You talk as if we're responsible"
• "(To Birling) I think it was a mean thing to do. Perhaps that spolit everything for her."
• "But these girls aren't cheap labour, they're people"
• "(Miserably) So I'm really responsible?"
• "Yes, it didn't seem to be anything very terrible at the time. Don't you understand? And if I could help her now I would -"
• "It's the only time I've ever done anything like that, and I'll never never do it again to anybody"