Sheila

• Instinctive feel for the truth: '"all last summer […] you never came near me"'
• Materialistic: '"Now I really feel engaged"'
• Patronised: '"run along"'
• Willing to speak up: '"I think it was a mean thing to do"'
• Protected: '"There isn't the slightest reason why my daughter should be dragged into this unpleasant business"'
• Guilty: '"I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel worse"'
• Socially aware: '"These girls aren't cheap labour- they're people"'
• Self-centred: '"Oh I wish you hadn't told me"'
• Sympathetic: '"It's a rotten shame"'
• Vindictive jealous: '"If she'd been some miserable plain little creature, I don't suppose I'd have done it"'
• Inspector-like: '"Were you seeing her last spring and summer […] ? Were you?'
• Bitter: '"I'm supposed to be engaged to the hero of it"'
• Responsible: '"Miss Birling has just been made to understand what she did to this girl. She feels responsible"'
• Hope for future: '"They're more impressionable […] the young ones"'
• Matures: '"You and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here"'
• Enlightened: '"If all that's come out tonight is true, then it doesn't matter who it was who made us confess"'
• Aware: '"He's giving us the rope so that we'll hang ourselves"'
• "I'm afraid you'll say something or do something that you'll be sorry for afterwards"
• MRS BIRLING enters [...] Self-confidently […] out of key with the […] scene that has just passed, SHEILA feels this at once