Key Quotes

• Eric


  • In his early twenties
  • Not quite at ease
  • Half-shy, half assertive
• Eric: '"He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out."'
• Eric: '"Well I think it's a damn shame."'
• Eric: '"You know don't you?"'
• Eric: '"Could I have a drink first?"'
• Eric: '"I was a bit squiffy."'
• Eric: '"She told me she didn't want to go in but that – well, I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty – and I threatened to make a row."'
• Eric: '"I didn't even remember – that's the hellish thing. Oh – my God!"'
• Eric: '"I wasn't in love with her or anything – but I liked her – she way pretty and a good sport."'
• Eric: '"She didn't want me to marry her. Said I didn't love her."'
• Eric: '"In a way she treated me – as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as she was."'
• Eric: '"I insisted on giving her enough money to keep her going."'
• Eric: '"Then - you killed her… and the child she'd have had too – my child – your own Grandchild – you killed them both – damn you, damn you."'
• Eric: '"You don't understand anything. You never did. You never even tried."'
• Eric: '"I'm never likely to forget."'
• Eric: '"What does it matter now whether they give you a knighthood or not?"'
• Eric: '"I'm ashamed of you as well. Yes both of you."'
• He was our police inspector all right.
• I didn't notice you standing up to him.
• I do take some interest in it. I take too much, that's my trouble.
• You're beginning to pretend that nothings really happened at all. And I can't see it like that.
• I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her.
• The money's not the important thing. It's what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters.