Studied by 20 people
“The lighting should be pink and intimate, until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be…
brighter and harder.”
“with fairly easy manners but…
rather provincial in his speech.”
“very much the easy…
well-bred young man-about-town.”
“in his early twenties, not quite at ease,…
half shy, half assertive.”
“it’s exactly the same…
port your father gets from him.”
“You’ll have to…
get used to that, just as I had.”
“You’re just the kind of
son-in-law I always wanted.”
“are no longer competing but a working together - for…
lower costs and higher prices.”
“is it the one…
you wanted me to have?”
“I’m talking as a…
hard-headed, practical man of business”
“Nobody wants war…
except some half-civilized folks in the Balkans”
“Yes, but you’ve got to remember, my boy, that clothes
mean something quite different to a woman”
“as if we were all…
mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense”
“she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant…
burnt her inside out, of course.”
“One person and one line of inquiry at a time. Otherwise…
there’s a muddle.”
Mr B- “Well it’s my duty…
to keep labour costs down.”
“That’s something this…
public-school-and-Varsity life you’ve had doesn’t seem to teach you.”
“But these girls aren’t…
cheap labour - they’re people.”
[miserably] “So I’m…
really responsible?”
“Why - you…
fool - he knows. Of course he knows.”
“You musn’t try to…
build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.”
“I became at once…
the most important person in her life - you understand?”
“Of course not. You were…
the wonderful Fairy Prince.”
“We’ve done a great deal of useful work in…
helping deserving cases.”
“I think it was simply…
a piece of gross impertinence.”
“She was claiming…
elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position.”
“As if a girl…
of that sort would ever refuse money!”
“I was in that state…
when a chap easily turns nasty.”
“Look Inspector - …
I’d give thousands - yes- thousands.”
“but there are millions…
and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us.”
“if men will not learn that lesson…
they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”
“I suppose we’re…
all nice people now.”
“And it frightens…
me the way you talk.”
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