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" We may look forwards to time when the Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices.”

"By the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive- community and all that nonesense.”

" Yes , she was in great agony."

“You’ll hear some people say that war is inevitable. And to that i say-fiddlesticks

“A man has to mind his own buisiness and look after himself and his own- and- We hear the sharp ring of a doorbell. Birling stops to listen.”

“As it happened more than eighteen months ago- nearly two years ago- obviously it has nothing to do with the wretched girl’s suicide”

“I can’t accept any responsibility”

“Perhaps i ought to warn you that the cheif constable is an old friend of mine. We play golf together.”

“I care. I was almost certain for a Knighthood in the next honours list”

“Theres every excuse for what both your mother and i did.”

“(Jovially) But the whole things different now”

“Its my duty to ask questions”

“You see, we have to share something. If theres nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.”

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

“Could A rather woman who is her husbands social superior”

“ Girls of that class"

“ I'm verry sorry. But I think she only had herself to blame”

“ I was the only one of you not to give into him"

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

“ These girls aren't cheap labour, they're people "

"Why - you fool - he knows! Of course he knows "

“ And i know i am to blame - and i am desperately sorry”

“ It's you two that are being childish - trying not to face the facts”

“between us we drove that girl to suicide”

“well-bred man about town”

“ I want you to understand i didnt install her there to make love to her”

.”but what girl there were probably four or five different girls”

“not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”

“ your squiffy”

“ why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?… I’d have let her stay”

“ Eric enters, looking extremely pale and distressed”

“ you haven’t made it any easier for me, have you, mother?”

(miserably,) could I have a drink first?”

“ Well, I was in that state where one easily turns nasty – and I threatened to make a row”

“ what happened to that girl and what we all did that matters” Diary