Key quotes

• Gerald Croft


  • Attractive chap about thirty
  • Rather too manly to be a dandy
  • Very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town
• Gerald Croft: '"I've told you – I was awfully busy at the works all that time."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I drink to you – and hope I can make you as happy as you deserve to be."'
• Gerald Croft: '"sounds a bit fishy to me"'
• Gerald Croft: '"unless Eric's been up to something. And that would be very awkward wouldn't it?"'
• Gerald Croft: '"All right, I knew her. Let's leave it at that."'
• Gerald Croft: '"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."'
• Gerald Croft: '"For God's sake – don't say anything to the inspector."'
• Gerald Croft: '"It's bound to be unpleasant and disturbing."'
• Gerald Croft: '"You've been through it, and now you want to see someone else put through it."'
• The Palace music hall is a favourite haunt of women of the town
• Gerald Croft noticed a girl who looked quite different and was very pretty
• Gerald Croft: '"Sorry – I – well, I've suddenly realized – taken it in properly – that she's dead –"'
• Gerald Croft: '"The girl… gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I insisted on Daisy moving into those rooms and I made her take some money to keep her going there."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I became at once the most the most important person in her life."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I didn't feel about her as she felt about me."'
• Gerald Croft: '"You know, it wasn't disgusting."'
• Gerald Croft: '"Daisy knew it was coming to an end. So I broke it off definitely… she was – very gallant – about it."'
• Gerald Croft: '"She told me she'd been happier than she'd ever been before – but that she knew it couldn't last."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I'm rather more – upset – by this than I appear to be."'