Gerald Croft

• Birling : […] for lower costs and higher prices

  Gerald : Hear, Hear!
• I made her go to Morgan Terrace because I was sorry for her
• You’re just the kind of son-in-law i always wanted
• I did keep a girl last summer. I’ve admitted it
• Unless Eric’s been up to something. ( Nodding confidentally to Birling )
• ( After Birling says “Eva had to go” ) You couldn’t have done anything else
• …don’t say anything to the inspector […] We can keep it from him
• … this is Mr Gerald Croft - son of Sir George Croft
• (Rather impatiently) Mrs Birling, the Inspector knows all that
• I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women
• Sheila : Between us we drove that girl to suicide

  Gerald : Did we? Who says so?
• Everything‘s all right now, Sheila. (Holds up the ring.) What about this ring?
• … but i insisted on a parting gift of enough money
• So I broke it off definitely before I went
• Nearly any man would have done
• I made the people at the County find some food for her
• … in fact she hadn’t a penny
• I happened to look in, one night, after a long dull day
• So I went across and told Joe Meggarty some nonsense - that the manager had a message for him or something like that
• She’d better take her out
• (… rather impatiently) Mrs Birling, the Inspector knows all that
• … - don’t say anything to the Inspector
• I know we’d have done the same thing
• They’d be all broke - if I know them
• Well, perhaps this will help to stop it. (He produces a ring case.)
• I was awfully busy at the same time