An Inspector Calls

Cards (45)

  • Heavy-looking, rather portentous man
  • I'm a hard-headed, practical man of buisness
  • A pretty girl in her early 20s, very pleased with life
  • Not quite at ease, half shy half assertive
  • You're squiffy
  • For lower costs and higher priced
  • Look - Mummy - isn't it a beauty?
  • The Germans don't want war
  • Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
  • You seem to be a nice well-behaved family
  • Creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness
  • Brighter and harder
  • I'm on duty
  • I think you remember Eva Smith now don't you
  • If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we'd had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn't it?
  • A man has to look after himself
  • I don't play golf
  • But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people
  • Why the devil do you want to go around upsetting the child like that?
  • I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse
  • It was all over and done with, last summer
  • Of course he knows
  • I feel you're being all wrong
  • Girls of that class
  • He's only a boy
  • He is giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves
  • Surely, you don't mean Alderman Meggarty?
  • Yes. I suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted
  • Buy you must understand that a lot of young men -
  • Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges
  • As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money
  • Don't stammer and yammer at me again
  • He should be made an example of
  • You know, don't you?
  • I didn't know it was you - I never dreamt
  • Yes, I insisted - it seems
  • How stupid it all is!
  • Well, I'm old enough to be married, aren't I
  • Just used her for the end of a drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person
  • You can't even say 'I'm sorry Eva Smith'