Responsibility

• will learn with fire and blood and anguish - Inspector A3
• obviously it has nothing whatever to do with the wretched girl's suicide. Eh, Inspector? (Mr B A1)
• what happened to her afterwards may have driven her to suicide. A chain of events. (Inspector A1)
• But you're partly to blame. Just as your father is. (Inspector A1)
• No, not really. It was my own fault. (Sheila A1)
• But mother, do stop before it's too late. (Sheila A2)
• No, he's giving us the rope -so that we'll hang ourselves. (Sheila A2)
• You mean you don't choose to do, Mrs Birling. (Inspector A2)
• Go on, Mother. You might as well admit it. (Sheila A2)
• I consider I did my duty. (Mrs B A2)
• Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility. (Mrs B A2)
• I don't believe it. I won't believe it... (Mrs B A2)
• To do my duty. (Inspector A2)
• Because mother has been busy blaming everything on the young man who got this girl into trouble (Sheila A3)
• I've got to cover this up as soon as I can. (Mr B A3)
• you don't understand anything. You never did. You never even tried too. (Eric A3)
• But each of you helped kill her. Remember that. Never forget. (Inspector A3)
• Look, Inspector - I'd give thousands - yes, thousands - (Mr B A3)
• There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did - it turned out unfortunately, that's all - (Mr B A3)
• it's you two being childish - trying not to face the facts. (Sheila A3)
• we helped to kill her - ands that's what matters - (Eric A3)
• Everything we said had happened really had happened. (Sheila A3)