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START: If you think you can bring any pressure to bear upon me, Inspector, you’re quite mistaken. Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of or that won’t bear investigation.
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END: And in spite of what’s happened to the girls since, I consider I did my duty. So if I prefer not to discuss it any further, you have no power to make me change my mind.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Priestley, J.B. An Inspector Calls and Other Plays. Penguin Modern Classics, London. 2000, p.197.
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