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Mrs. Birling (To the Inspector ('a trifle impertinent', 'my…
Mrs. Birling
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- Denying any responsibility for her own actions
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- After the revelations of Act Three
(triumphantly) Didn't I tell you? Didn't I say I couldn't imagine a real police inspector talking like that to us?
Mrs Birling: I was the only one of you who didn't give in to him. And now I say we must discuss this business quietly and sensibly and decide if there's anything to be done about it
Sheila: So nothing really happened. So there's nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn. We can all go on behaving just as we did.
Mrs Birling: Well, why shouldn't we?
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- Before the inspector arrives
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Now, Sheila, don't tease him. When you're married you'll realize that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business. You'll have to get used to that, just as I had.
Mrs Birling: (smiling) Well, it came just at the right moment. That was clever of you, Gerald. Now, Arthur, if you've no more to say, I think Sheila and I had better go into the drawing room and leave you men
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His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior.
- How she describes her involvement with Daisy
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