sheila birling key quotes

• "oh - it's wonderful! look - mummy - isn't it a beauty?"
• "it frightens me the way you talk, and i can't listen to any more of it"
• described at the beginning as - pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited
• "except for all last summer when you never came near me"
• "oh i wish you hadn't told me"
• "if i could help her now i would"
• "so i'm really responsible?"
• "mother, i think that was vile and cruel"
• "don't interfere please father"
• "we're not the same people who sat down to dinner here"
• "but these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people"
• "between us we drove that girl to suicide"
• "if she'd been some miserable plain little creature, i don't suppose i'd have done it"
• "you musn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl"
• "no, he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves"
• "i rather respect you now more than i've ever done before"
• "i know. i had her turned out of a job. i started it"
• "the point is, you don't seem to have learnt anything"
• "if you want to know, its you two who are being childish - trying not to face the facts"
• "but that won't bring eva smith back to life, will it?"