Act 2 - Sedley

Question 1

Now had Mrs Sedley - - -

Answer 1

been a woman of similar energy, she would have exerted it …

Question 2

And occupying a - - -

Answer 2

large house would have taken in boarders.

Question 3

She was content - - -

Answer 3

to lie on the shore where Fortune had stranded her.

Question 4

and - - -

Answer 4

Mrs Sedley

Question 5

to find Mrs Sedley - - -

Answer 5

surreptitiously administering Daffy’s Elixir to the child…

Question 6

Posioned, - - -

Answer 6

Amelia! This language to me?

Question 7

Very good - - -

Answer 7

you think I’m a murderess then.

Question 8

This is the language - - -

Answer 8

to use to your mother. I have met with misfortunes: I have sunk low in life: I have kept my carraige and now walk on foot: but I did not know I was a murderess before and thank you for the news.

Question 9

Oh, no, - - -

Answer 9

my love - only that I was a murderess; I didn’t poison you when you were a child. At least I fed you where you were a baby. But Mrs Osborne is so proud she’ll let her son starve. Why there’s Major Dobbin. - In India, who writes to you every week and sends presents in the hope that you’ll marry him.

Question 10

Very well then - - -

Answer 10

don’t remarry, but let his grandfather look after Georgy.

Question 11

Old Mr Osborne

Answer 11

will support us all if you let him bring up the little Georgy.

Question 12

I’ll tell you how - - -

Answer 12

I could, my fine lady. I wouldn’t selfishly let my own feelings stand in the way of little Georgy. To think he could have a fine home with his grandfather in Russell Square. Instead of being molly-coddled by his selfish mother. And you say I’m a murderess.

Question 13

What are - - -

Answer 13

Those? … Books!

Question 14

Books, when the whole house - - -

Answer 14

wants bread! Books, when to keep you and your son in luxury, and your dear father out of gaol, I’ve sold every trinket I had, down to the very spoons. You break my heart with your books and that boy of yours, whom you are ruining, though part with him you will not. Oh Amelia, may God send you a more dutiful child than I have had! There’s Jos, deserts his father . . .and there’s Georgy, who might be provided for and might be rich - while my dear, dear old man is without a sh-shilling.

Question 15

Oh Amelia - - -

Answer 15

Jos is still sending it, only your father sold the annuity and it is gone in speculation.