Moment 7

• (angrily to Eric) You’re the one I blame for this. 


  Birling
• There’ll be a public scandal


  Birling
• I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List-


  Birling
• Eric, I’m absolutely ashamed of you.


  Mrs. B
• I’m ashamed of you as well – yes both of you. 


  Eric
• There‘s every excuse for what both your mother and I did


  Birling
• you’re beginning all over again to pretend that nothing much has happened-


  Sheila
• you don’t seem to have learnt anything.


  Sheila
• it matters a devil of a lot. Makes all the difference.


  Birling
• it doesn’t make any real difference


  Sheila
• why you all had to go letting everything come out like that, beats me.


  Birling
• Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank


  Birling
• I felt it all the time. He never talked like one. He never even looked like one. 


  Mrs. B
• (bitterly) I suppose we’re all nice people now.


  Sheila
• You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all.


  Eric
• What girl? There were probably four or five different girls.


  Gerald
• the famous younger generation who know it all.


  Birling
• What happens in moment 7?

  Aftermath of Inspector