Sheila Birling

Cards (36)

  • … 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 that girl, I’d never go near the place 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