The three missing words are: “understanding, forgiveness, accepting” – is not the right completion, and here is why this matters. From An Inspector Calls , the character who actually says this line is the Inspector, addressing Mr Birling , not Mrs Birling. The full quotation in the play is:

“You’re offering the money at the wrong time, Mr Birling. She’s dead. You can’t do her any good now, you have no hope of not only paying back what you did to her but of avoiding the consequences.”

Because of this, there is no canonical line in the play that reads “you have no hope of __________ __________ __________, Mrs Birling.” The prompt you have is therefore almost certainly a misremembered or miscopied version of the Inspector’s speech to Mr Birling, rather than a genuine gap–fill line spoken to Mrs Birling.

So:

  • The exact three-word completion “you have no hope of ___ ___ ___, Mrs Birling” does not appear in standard editions of An Inspector Calls.
  • The closest authentic line is the Inspector telling Mr Birling that he has no hope of avoiding the consequences of his actions.

Given that, any specific three-word fill for “Mrs Birling” would be guesswork rather than a correct quotation from the play.