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ERIC QUOTES

“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”

“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices”

“it isn’t as if you can go and work somewhere else.”

“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough luck.”

“I’d have let her stay”

“Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I threatened to make a row”

“And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the hellish thing.”

“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty and a good sport-”

“she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as she was.”

“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble that’s why.”

“Then- you killed her. She came to you to protect me- and you turned her away-yes, and you killed her-and the child she’d have had too- my child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn you-”

“He was our police inspector all right”

“(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and that’s what matters-”

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SHEILA MAIN QUOTES

“A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited”

“Yes, go on, Mummy”

“(rather distressed) I can’t help thinking about this girl- destroying herself so horribly- and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn’t told me.”

“But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.”

“She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.”

“I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very impertinent – and – and - ”

“And if I could help her now, I would-”

“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go there again”

“Why- you fool- he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see.”

“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse when he does”

“No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves”

”I suppose we’re all nice people now”

“He inspected us all right.”

“It frightens me the way you talk”