Birling

Question 1

Birling son in law

Answer 1

You’re just the kind of son-in-law I’ve always wanted

Question 2

Birling working together

Answer 2

Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together- for lower costs and higher prices.

Question 3

Birling don’t want war

Answer 3

The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war except some half-civilised folk in the Balkans.

Question 4

Birling hard-headed

Answer 4

I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business.

Question 5

Birling on Russia

Answer 5

except of course in Russia, which will always be behindhand, naturally.

Question 6

Birling bees in a hive

Answer 6

As if we’re all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense… a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own

Question 7

Birling on asking for the earth

Answer 7

If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.

Question 8

Birling Thousands

Answer 8

Look, Inspector—I’d give thousands—yes, thousands

Question 9

Birling Socialist

Answer 9

Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank

Question 10

Birling refusing responsibility

Answer 10

There’s every excuse for what your mother and I did—it turned out unfortunately, that’s all.

Question 11

Birling before phone call

Answer 11

The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke-

Question 12

Unsinkable

Answer 12

Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

Question 13

Birling on duty

Answer 13

It’s my duty to keep costs down.

Question 14

Pitiful

Answer 14

Pitiful affair