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Inspector Goole has been questioning members of the Birling family about their interaction and involvement with a young girl, Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton). She has been discovered dead after committing suicide and it transpires that each of the family not only knew her, but was responsible for her decline. Sheila Birling has just realized that her fiance, Gerald, had been having an affair with the girl. Although Gerald still hopes to keep the truth from coming out, Sheila astutely
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START: INSPECTOR [to Gerald]: Well?
SHEILA: [with hysterical laugh, to Gerald]: You see? What did I tell you?
INSPECTOR: What did you tell him?
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END: SHEILA [staring at him]: Yes. That鈥檚 true. You know. [She goes closer to him, wonderingly.] I don鈥檛 understand about you.
INSPECTOR [calmly]: There鈥檚 no reason you should.
Priestley, J.B. An Inspector Calls and Other Plays. Penguin Modern Classics, London. 2000, pp. 183-185.
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