Oh- Gerald- you've got it-is it the one you wanted me to have? Now i really feel engaged.
Now you've brought us together, and perhaps we may look to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together...
The Birlings host a family dinner to celebrate Sheila and Gerald's engagement and Mr Birling makes a speech about his and Gerald's family's businesses...
Dia: 2
What about war?
There's a good deal of silly talk about these days-but and i speak as a hard-headed business man, who has to take risks and know what he's about-I say...there isn't a chance at war. The world's developing so fast that it'll make war impossible...
Why, a friend of mine went over this new liner last week-The Titanic-she sails next week- and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable!
Mr Birling then makes another speech showing how important he thinks his opinion is...
Dia: 3
What i wanted to say is-there's a fair chance that i might find a way into the next Honors list. Just a knighthood, of course.
Oh-i say-Congratulations!
The way some of these cranks talk and write now,you'd think everybody has to look after everyone else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive-a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own- and-
RING RING!
Mrs Birling and Sheila go into the drawing room and Mr Birling tells Gerald about his possible knighthood and then makes ANOTHER speech...
Dia: 4
I'd like some information, if you don't mind, Mr Birling. Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary. She'd been taken there this afternoon because she'd swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant...
We let them all come back-at the old rates-expect the four or five ringleaders, who started the trouble. I went down myself and told them to clear out. And this girl, Eva Smith, was one of them. She'd had a lot to say, i remember-far too much- so she had to go...
They might. But after all it's better to ask for the earth than to take it...
An Inspector arrives and questions Mr Birling about his involvement of a young woman's suicide and figures out that she used to work at one of Mr Birling's factories...
Dia: 5
Yes, but it didn't seem to be anything very terrible at the time...
The Inspector then questions Sheila and figures out she was the reason for Eva losing her job at Milwards...
Dia: 6
I'm sorry Sheila...don't say anything to the Inspector!
Why-you fool-he knows! And i hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet. You'll see...
So first she changed her name to Daisy Renton...
Sheila finds out about Gerald's affair when the Inspector reveals that Eva also went by the name Daisy Renton.
Dia: 0
And so you used the power you had...to punish the girl just because she made you feel like that...
If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd be soon asking for the earth...