aic quotations (act 2)

*And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and  disturbing things?*

*Gerald: ‘If possible - yes.’ Inspector: ‘Well, we know one young woman who wasn’t, don’t  we?’*

*(sternly to Gerald and Sheila) You see, we have to share something.*

 *If there’s nothing  else, we’ll have to share our guilt.*

*You seem to have made a great impression on this child, Inspector*

*We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable*

*Girls of that class--*

*You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then  the Inspector will just break it down*

*I suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely  grateful.*

*I became at once the most important person in her life*

*You were the wonderful Fairy Prince. You must have adored it, Gerald*

*All right - I did for a time. Nearly any man would have done*

*That’s probably about the best thing you’ve said tonight*

*At least it’s honest*

*You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here*

*We’d have to start all over again, getting to know each other*

*Public men, Mr Birling,*

*have responsibilities as well as privileges*

*You’ve had children. You must have known what she was feeling*

*And you slammed the door in her face.*

*I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end*

*But I accept no blame for it at all*