Key Points

Question 1

Inspector arrives : ‘Burnt her-‘

Answer 1

‘Inside out, of course’

Question 2

Inspector arrives : ‘She was-‘

Answer 2

‘In great agony’

Question 3

(MR.B) - ‘I don’t see-‘

Answer 3

‘Where I come into this’

Question 4

(MR.B) - ‘There’s nothing-‘

Answer 4

‘Mysterious or scandalous about this business’

Question 5

(MR.B) - ‘It has nothing to do-‘

Answer 5

‘With this wretched girl’s suicide’

Question 6

(MR.B) ‘What happened afterwards-‘

Answer 6

‘May have driven her to suicide. A chain of events’

Question 7

(MR.B) ‘Still, I can’t-‘

Answer 7

‘Accept any responsibility’

Question 8

(MR.B) ‘She’d had a-‘

Answer 8

‘Lot to say - far too much’

Question 9

(MR.B) ‘If you don’t come down-‘

Answer 9

‘Sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth’

Question 10

(MR.B) ‘Perhaps I ought to warn you-‘

Answer 10

‘That he’s an old friend of mine’

Question 11

(SHEILA) ‘I can’t help thinking-‘

Answer 11

‘About this girl, destroying herself so horribly’

Question 12

(SHEILA) ‘It’s a r-‘

Answer 12

‘Rotten shame’

Question 13

(SHEILA) ‘But these girls-‘

Answer 13

‘Aren’t cheap labour, they’re people’

Question 14

(SHEILA) ‘(Recognises it with-‘

Answer 14

‘A little cry, gives a half-stifled sob, then runs out)’

Question 15

(SHEILA) ‘I felt rotten about it-‘

Answer 15

‘At the time and now I feel a lot worse’

Question 16

(SHEILA) ‘It’s the only time I’ve-‘

Answer 16

‘Ever done something like that, and I’ll never, never do it again’