Sheila

• You're squiffy
• is it the one you wanted me to have
• Mummy- isn't it a beauty
• Sorry! It's just i can't stop thinking about this girl- destroying herself so horribly - and i've been so happy tonight
• But 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 of course he knows
• Mother, I couldn't possibly go
• No he's giving us the rope- so that we'll hang ourselves
• Of course, Mother. It was obvious from the start
• Just what i was going to ask
• You were the fairy prince. You must have adored it gerald
• (she hands him the ring)
• It means that we've no excuse now for putting on airs and that if we've any sense we won't try
• Mother, she's just died a horrible death- don't forget
• (astonished) Mother!
• Mother i think it was cruel and vile
• Mother don't you see
• I know. I had her turned out of her job. I started it
• But now you're beginning again to pretend nothing much has happened
• The point is, you don't seem to have learnt anything
• Its you two who are being childish - trying not to face the facts
• But it doesn't make any real difference