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An Inspector Calls
Sheila Birling
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… all last
summer
[…] you
never
came
near
me
I think it was a
mean
thing to do
These girls
aren’t
cheap
labour
- they’re
people
I felt
rotten
about it at the
time
and now I feel a lot
worse
Why - you
fool
- he knows
Mrs Birling enters […]
self-confidently
[…] out of key with the […] scene that has just
passed.
Sheila
feels
this at once
I’m
afraid
you’ll say something or do something that you’ll be
sorry
for
afterwards
… he’s giving us the
rope
so that we’ll
hang
ourselves
Now I really feel
engaged
… run
along
… there isn’t the
slightest
reason why my
daughter
should be dragged into this unpleasant
business
… oh I wish you
hadn’t
told me
It’s a
rotten
shame
If she’d been some
miserable
plain little
creature,
I don’t suppose I’d have done it
Were you seeing her last
spring
and
summer
[…]? Were you?
I’m supposed to be
engaged
to the
hero
of it
If all that’s come out
tonight
is true, then it doesn’t much
matter
who it was who made us
confess
You and I
aren’t
the same people who
sat
down to dinner here
Miss Birling has just been
made
to
understand
and what she did to this girl, she feels
responsible
They’re more
impressionable
[…] … the
young
ones
… go on,
Mummy
… all last
summer,
when you
never
came near me
Oh -
Gerald
- you’ve
got
it - is it the one
you
wanted me to have?
… sorry,
Daddy
(… Sheila is still
admiring
her ring.)
Run
along
… if they
didn
’t get rid of tha
t gi
rl, I’d never go near th
e pla
ce again
I’ll
never,
never do it again to
anybody
… you knew her very well.
Otherwise,
you wouldn’t look so
guilty
Mother, I think it was
cruel
and
vile
I
behaved
badly too. I know I did. I’m
ashamed
of it
… it’s you
two
who are being
childish
- trying not to
face
the facts
… if all that’s come
out
tonight
is true, then it doesn’t
much
matter who it was who made us
confess
But you’re
forgetting
one thing I still can’t forget. Everything we said had
happened
really had
happened
I
want
to get out of this. It
frightens
me the way you
talk
No, not yet. It’s too
soon.
I must
think