Cards (19)

  • Then it'll be all right. The governor prides himself on being a good judge of port. I don’t pretend to know much about it.
  • OhI will, I will.
  • You seem to be a nice well-behaved family
  • Unless Eric’s been up to something. (nodding confidentially to Birling.) and that would be awkward, wouldn't it?
  • You couldn't have done anything else.
  •  I should say so!
  • Yes, I think you were. I know we'd have done the same thing. Don't look like that Sheila.
  • And I don't really see that this inquiry gets you anywhere, inspector. It's what happened to her since she left Mr Birling's works that is important.
  • Well, there's nothing to settle as far as I’m concerned. I've never known an Eva Smith.
  • After all, y'know, we're respectable citizens and not criminals
  • 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.
  • Why should you? It's bound to be unpleasant and disturbing. (ACT 2)
  •  sorry – I – well, I've suddenly realized – taken it in properly – that's she's dead-- (ACT 2)
  • of course I do. He's a notorious womanizer as well as being one of the worst sots and rogues in Brumley-- (ACT 2)
  • yes. I suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm hearted – and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life – you understand? (ACT 2)
  •  all right – I did for a time. Nearly any man would have done (ACT 2)
  • Everything’s all right now, Sheila. What about this ring (ACT 3)
  • (slowly) Than man wasn't a police officer. (ACT 3)
  • “An attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town”