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Pygmalion by G. B. Shaw-3

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•ACT III It is Mrs. Higgins's at-home day. •Nobody has yet arrived. •Her drawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows looking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in an older house of the same pretension. •The windows are open, giving access to a balcony with flowers in pots. •If you stand with your face to the windows, you have the fireplace on your left and the door in the right-hand wall close to the corner nearest the windows.	•3. Akt Es ist der freie Tag von Mrs. Higgins. •Bislang ist niemand angekommen. •Ihr Salon, in einer Wohnung am Chelsea-Damm, hat drei Fenster mit Blick auf den Fluss; und die Zimmerdecke ist nicht so hoch wie sie es in einem älteren Haus bei gleichem Anspruch sein würde. •Die Fenster sind geöffnet und bieten Zugang zu einem Balkon mit Topfblumen. •Wenn man mit dem Gesicht zu den Fenstern steht, hat man den Kamin auf der linken Seite und die Tür rechter Hand in der Wand in der Nähe der Ecke, die den Fenstern am nächsten ist.
•Mrs. Higgins was brought up on Morris and Burne Jones; and her room, which is very unlike her son's room in Wimpole Street, is not crowded with furniture and little tables and nicknacks. •In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things. •A few good oil-paintings from the exhibitions in the Grosvenor Gallery thirty years ago (the Burne Jones, not the Whistler side of them) are on the walls. •The only landscape is a Cecil Lawson on the scale of a Rubens. •There is a portrait of Mrs. Higgins as she was when she defied fashion in her youth in one of the beautiful Rossettian costumes which, when caricatured by people who did not understand, led to the absurdities of popular estheticism in the eighteen-seventies.	•Mrs. Higgins Kindheit wurde von den Künstlern, Morris und Burne-Jones geprägt; und ihr Zimmer, das sich sehr stark vom Zimmer ihres Sohnes in der Wimpole Street unterscheidet, ist nicht voller Möbel und kleinen Tischen und Schnickschnack. •In der Mitte des Raumes befindet sich eine große Ottomane; und das, mit dem Teppich, den Morris-Tapeten und den Morris Chintz-Fenstervorhängen und den Brokatbezügen der Ottomane und ihrer Kissen, liefert das ganze Ornament und ist viel zu schön, um von dem Kleinkram nutzloser Dinge verborgen zu werden. •Einige gute Ölgemälde aus den Ausstellungen in der Grosvenor Gallery vor dreißig Jahren (der Burne Jones, nicht die Whistlerseite davon) befinden sich an den Wänden. •Die einzige Landschaft ist ein Cecil Lawson in der Größe eines Rubens. •Es gibt ein Porträt von Mrs. Higgins aus einer Zeit, als sie sich in ihrer Jugend der Mode wiedersetzte, in einem der wunderschönen Rosettikostüme, die von Leuten karikiert, die sie nicht verstanden, zu den Absurditäten der populären Ästhetik in den achtziger Jahren führten.
•In the corner diagonally opposite the door Mrs. Higgins, now over sixty and long past taking the trouble to dress out of the fashion, sits writing at an elegantly simple writing-table with a bell button within reach of her hand. •There is a Chippendale chair further back in the room between her and the window nearest her side. •At the other side of the room, further forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones. •On the same side a piano in a decorated case. •The corner between the fireplace and the window is occupied by a divan cushioned in Morris chintz.	•In der Ecke schräg gegenüber der Tür sitzt Mrs. Higgins, jetzt über sechzig Jahre alt und lange über die Zeit, sich zu bemühen, sich unmodern zu kleiden, und schreibt an einem elegant einfachen Schreibtisch mit einer Klingelknopf in Reichweite ihrer Hand. •Es gibt einen Chippendalestuhl weiter hinten im Raum zwischen ihr und dem Fenster, der ihrer Seite am nächsten liegt. •Auf der anderen Seite des Raumes, weiter vorne, befindet sich ein elisabethanischer Stuhl, der grob nach dem Geschmack von Inigo Jones geschnitzt ist. •Auf der gleichen Seite ein Klavier in einer dekorierten Hülle. •In der Ecke zwischen dem Kamin und dem Fenster befindet sich ein Diwan, dessen Polster mit Morris Chintz bezogen sind.
•It is between four and five in the afternoon.	•Es ist zwischen vier und fünf am Nachmittag.
•The door is opened violently; and Higgins enters with his hat on.	•Die Tür wird heftig geöffnet, und Higgins kommt mit Hut herein.
•MRS. HIGGINS [dismayed] Henry! •[scolding him] What are you doing here to-day? •It is my at home day: you promised not to come. •[As he bends to kiss her, she takes his hat off, and presents it to him].	•MRS. HIGGINS [ bestürzt]: Henry! •[ihn scheltend] Was machst du hier um diese Tageszeit? •Heute ist mein Empfangstag: du hast versprochen, nicht zu kommen. •[ Als er sich beugt, um sie zu küssen, nimmt sie seinen Hut ab und präsentiert ihn ihm].
•HIGGINS. •Oh bother! •[He throws the hat down on the table].	•HIGGINS: •Mist! •[Er wirft den Hut auf den Tisch].
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Go home at once.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Geh sofort nach Hause.
•HIGGINS [kissing her] I know, mother. •I came on purpose.	•HIGGINS [küsst sie]: Ich weiß, Mutter. •Ich kam mit Absicht.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •But you mustn't. •I'm serious, Henry. •You offend all my friends: they stop coming whenever they meet you.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Aber das darfst du nicht. •Ich meine es Ernst, Henry. •Du beleidigst alle meine Freunde; immer nachdem sie dich getroffen haben, bleiben sie weg.
•HIGGINS. •Nonsense! •I know I have no small talk; but people don't mind. •[He sits on the settee].	•HIGGINS: •Unsinn! •Ich weiß, ich habe kein Geschick für Small Talk; aber die Leute stört es nicht. •[Er setzt sich auf die Couch].
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Oh! •don't they? •Small talk indeed! •What about your large talk? •Really, dear, you mustn't stay.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Oh! •wirklich? •Tatsächlich Small Talk! •Was ist mit deiner großen Rede? •Wirklich, mein Lieber, du darfst nicht bleiben.
•HIGGINS. •I must. •I've a job for you. •A phonetic job.	•HIGGINS: •Ich muss. •Ich habe Arbeit für dich. •Eine phonetische Arbeit.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •No use, dear. •I'm sorry; but I can't get round your vowels; and though I like to get pretty postcards in your patent shorthand, I always have to read the copies in ordinary writing you so thoughtfully send me.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Kein Bedarf, mein Lieber. •Es tut mir leid; aber ich kann mit deinen Vokalen nichts anfangen; und obwohl ich gern nette Postkarten von dir in deiner Patentstenoschrift bekomme, muss ich immer die Kopien in normaler Schreibschrift lesen, die du mir so umsichtig zuschickst.
•HIGGINS. •Well, this isn't a phonetic job.	•HIGGINS: •Nun, dies ist keine phonetische Arbeit.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •You said it was.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Du hast gesagt, dass sie das wäre.
•HIGGINS. •Not your part of it. •I've picked up a girl.	•HIGGINS: •Nicht dein Teil davon. •Ich habe ein Mädchen mitgenommen.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Does that mean that some girl has picked you up?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Heißt das, dass irgendein Mächen dich abgeschleppt hat?
•HIGGINS. •Not at all. •I don't mean a love affair.	•HIGGINS: •Ganz und gar nicht. •Ich meine keine Liebesbeziehung.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •What a pity!	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Wie schade!
•HIGGINS. •Why?	•HIGGINS: •Wieso?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Well, you never fall in love with anyone under forty-five. •When will you discover that there are some rather nice-looking young women about?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Nun, du verliebst dich niemals in jemand, der jünger als fünfundvierzig Jahre alt ist. •Wann wirst du jemals herausfinden, dass es einige ziemlich gut aussehende junge Frauen gibt?
•HIGGINS. •Oh, I can't be bothered with young women. •My idea of a loveable woman is something as like you as possible. •I shall never get into the way of seriously liking young women: some habits lie too deep to be changed. •[Rising abruptly and walking about, jingling his money and his keys in his trouser pockets] Besides, they're all idiots.	•HIGGINS: •Oh, ich habe kein Interesse an jungen Frauen. •Meine Vorstellung einer liebenswerten Frau ist jemand der ähnlich dir ist. •Ich werde mir nie angewöhnen , junge Frauen ernsthaft zu mögen: Einige Gewohnheiten sind zu fest verankert, um geändert zu werden. •[Sich abrupt erhebend und herumlaufend, und mit seinem Geld und den Schlüsseln in seinen Hosentaschen klimpernd] Außerdem sind sie alle Idiotinnen.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Do you know what you would do if you really loved me, Henry?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Weißt du, was du tun würdest, wenn du mich wirklich lieben würdest, Henry?
•HIGGINS. •Oh bother! •What? •Marry, I suppose?	•HIGGINS: •Mist! •Was? •Heiraten, nehme ich an?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •No. •Stop fidgeting and take your hands out of your pockets. •[With a gesture of despair, he obeys and sits down again]. •That's a good boy. •Now tell me about the girl.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Nein. •Hör auf herumzuzappeln und nimm die Hände aus den Taschen. •[Mit einer genervten Geste gehorcht er und setzt sich wieder hin]. •Guter Junge. •Erzähl mir jetzt von dem Mädchen.
•HIGGINS. •She's coming to see you.	•HIGGINS: •Sie wird dich besuchen.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •I don't remember asking her.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Ich erinnere mich nicht, dass ich sie eingeladen habe.
•HIGGINS. •You didn't. •I asked her. •If you'd known her you wouldn't have asked her.	•HIGGINS: •Hast du auch nicht. •Ich habe sie aufgefordert. •Wenn du sie gekannt hättest, hättest du sie nicht eingeladen.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Indeed! •Why?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Wirklich! •Warum?
•HIGGINS. •Well, it's like this. •She's a common flower girl. •I picked her off the kerbstone.	•HIGGINS: •Nun, es ist so. •Sie ist ein gewöhnliches Blumenmädchen. •Ich habe sie aus der Gosse aufgelesen.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •And invited her to my at-home!	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Und sie zu mir eingeladen!
•HIGGINS [rising and coming to her to coax her] Oh, that'll be all right. •I've taught her to speak properly; and she has strict orders as to her behavior. •She's to keep to two subjects: the weather and everybody's health—Fine day and How do you do, you know—and not to let herself go on things in general. •That will be safe.	•HIGGINS [sich erhebend und zu ihr gehend, um sie zu beschwatzen] Oh, das wird schon in Ordnung sein. •Ich habe sie gelehrt, ordentlich zu reden; und sie hat genaue Anweisungen, wie sie sich benehmen muss. •Sie soll nur über zwei Themen sprechen: das Wetter und die Gesundheit - Schöner Tag und Wie geht es Ihnen, weißt du - und nicht über Dinge im Allgemeinen. •Das wird sicher sein.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Safe! •To talk about our health! •about our insides! •perhaps about our outsides! •How could you be so silly, Henry?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Sicher! •Über unsere Gesundheit zu reden! •über Magenverstimmung! •vielleicht über Hautprobleme! •Wie konntest du so dumm sein, Henry?
•HIGGINS [impatiently] Well, she must talk about something. •[He controls himself and sits down again]. •Oh, she'll be all right: don't you fuss. •Pickering is in it with me. •I've a sort of bet on that I'll pass her off as a duchess in six months. •I started on her some months ago; and she's getting on like a house on fire. •I shall win my bet. •She has a quick ear; and she's been easier to teach than my middle-class pupils because she's had to learn a complete new language. •She talks English almost as you talk French.	•HIGGINS [ungeduldig] Nun, sie muss über irgendetwas reden. •[Er beherrscht sich und setzt sich wieder hin]. •Oh, sie wird schon klarkommen: reg dich nicht so auf. •Pickering ist mit dabei. •Ich habe eine Art Wette mit ihm abgeschlossen, dass ich sie in sechs Monaten als Herzogin ausgeben werde. •Ich habe mit ihr vor einigen Monaten angefangen; und sie ist voller Eifer dabei. •Ich werde meine Wette gewinnen. •Sie hat ein scharfes Gehör; und sie war leichter zu unterrichten als meine Schüler der Mittelklasse, zumal sie eine völlig neue Sprache lernen musste. •Sie spricht Englisch, fast so wie du Französisch sprichst.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •That's satisfactory, at all events.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Das ist auf alle Fälle zufriedenstellend.
•HIGGINS. •Well, it is and it isn't.	•HIGGINS: •Nun, das ist es und auch wieder nicht.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •What does that mean?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Was heißt das denn?
•HIGGINS. •You see, I've got her pronunciation all right; but you have to consider not only how a girl pronounces, but what she pronounces; and that's where— They are interrupted by the parlor-maid, announcing guests.	•HIGGINS: •Siehst du, ich habe ihre Aussprache in Ordnung gebracht; aber man muss nicht nur berücksichtigen, wie ein Mädchen sich ausdrückt, sondern auch, was es ausspricht; und genau da - Sie werden vom Stubenmädchen unterbrochen, das Gäste ankündigt.
•THE PARLOR-MAID. •Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill. •[She withdraws].	•DAS STUBENMÄDCHEN: •Mrs. und Miss Eynsford Hill. •[Sie zieht sich zurück].
•HIGGINS. •Oh Lord! •[He rises; snatches his hat from the table; and makes for the door; but before he reaches it his mother introduces him].	•HIGGINS: •O Gott! •[Er steht auf, schnappt sich seinen Hut vom Tisch und macht sich auf den Weg zur Tür, aber bevor er sie erreicht, stellt ihn seine Mutter vor].
•Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill are the mother and daughter who sheltered from the rain in Covent Garden. •The mother is well bred, quiet, and has the habitual anxiety of straitened means. •The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty.	•Mrs. und Miss Eynsford Hill sind die Mutter und Tochter, die sich im Covent Garden vor dem Regen geschützt haben. •Die Mutter ist wohlerzogen, ruhig, und hatte die ständige Ängstlichkeit, die aus einem Haushalt mit bescheidenden Mitteln erwächst. •Die Tochter hat sich eine heitere Ausstrahlung angeeignet, als sei sie in der feinen Gesellschaft zuhause; die Tapferkeit der eleganten Armut.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] How do you do? •[They shake hands].	•MRS. EYNSDORD HILL [zu Mrs. Higgins]: Wie geht es Ihnen? •[Sie schütteln sich die Hände.]
•MISS EYNSFORD HILL. •How d'you do? •[She shakes].	•MISS EYNSFORD HILL: •Wie geht's Ihnen? •[Sie schüttelt]
•MRS. HIGGINS [introducing] My son Henry.	•MRS. HIGGINS [stellt vor]: Mein Sohn, Henry.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Your celebrated son! •I have so longed to meet you, Professor Higgins.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Ihr gefeierter Sohn! •Ich habe mich so sehr danach gesehnt, Ihnen zu begegnen, Professor Higgins.
•HIGGINS [glumly, making no movement in her direction] Delighted. •[He backs against the piano and bows brusquely].	•HIGGINS [mürrisch, macht keine Bewegung in ihre Richtung]: Entzückt. •[Er lehnt sich gegen das Piano und verbeugt sich brüsk.]
•Miss EYNSFORD HILL [going to him with confident familiarity] How do you do?	•Miss EYNSFORD HILL [geht zu ihm mit sicherer Vertraulichkeit]: Wie geht es Ihnen?
•HIGGINS [staring at her] I've seen you before somewhere. •I haven't the ghost of a notion where; but I've heard your voice. •[Drearily] It doesn't matter. •You'd better sit down.	•HIGGINS [starrt sie an]: Ich habe sie schon einmal irgendwo gesehen. •Ich habe nicht den Hauch einer Ahnung wo; aber ich habe Ihre Stimme schon einmal gehört. •[Monoton] Das macht nichts. •Sie würden sich besser hinsetzen.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •I'm sorry to say that my celebrated son has no manners. •You mustn't mind him.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Es tut mir leid sagen zu müssen, dass mein gefeierter Sohn keine Manieren hat. •Sie dürfen sich nichts daraus machen.
•MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] I don't. •[She sits in the Elizabethan chair].	•MISS EYNSFORD HILL [unbekümmert]: Mache ich nicht. •[Sie setzt sich auf den elisabethanischen Stuhl.]
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [a little bewildered] Not at all. •[She sits on the ottoman between her daughter and Mrs. Higgins, who has turned her chair away from the writing-table].	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [ein wenig irritiert]: Ganz und gar nicht. •[Sie sitzt auf der Ottomane zwischen ihrer Tochter und Mrs. Higgins, die ihren Stuhl vom Schreibtisch weggedreht hat.]
•HIGGINS. •Oh, have I been rude? •I didn't mean to be. •[He goes to the central window, through which, with his back to the company, he contemplates the river and the flowers in Battersea Park on the opposite bank as if they were a frozen dessert.]	•HIGGINS: •Oh, war ich unhöflich? •Ich wollte es nicht sein. •[Er geht zum mittleren Fenster, durch welches er, mit dem Rücken zur Gesellschaft, den Fluss und die Blumen im Battersea Park am anderen Ufer betrachtet, als wären sie ein gefrorenes Dessert.]
•The parlor-maid returns, ushering in Pickering.	•Das Stubenmädchen kommt zurück und führt Pickering herein.
•THE PARLOR-MAID. •Colonel Pickering [She withdraws].	•DAS STUBENMÄDCHEN: •Colonel Pickering [Sie zieht sich zurück].
•PICKERING. •How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?	•PICKERING: •Wie geht es Ihnen, Mrs. Higgins?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •So glad you've come. •Do you know Mrs. Eynsford Hill—Miss Eynsford Hill? •[Exchange of bows. •The Colonel brings the Chippendale chair a little forward between Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Higgins, and sits down].	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Ich freue mich, dass Sie gekommen sind. •Kennen Sie Mrs. Eynsford Hill - Miss Eynsford Hill? •[Gegenseitige Verbeugungen. •Der Colonel rückt den Chippendalestuhl zwischen Mrs. Hill und Mrs. Higgins ein bisschen vor und setzt sich hin.]
•PICKERING. •Has Henry told you what we've come for?	•PICKERING: •Hat Henry Ihnen erzählt, weswegen wir gekommen sind?
•HIGGINS [over his shoulder] We were interrupted: damn it!	•HIGGINS [über seine Schulter hinweg]: Wir wurden unterbrochen. Verdammt!
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Oh Henry, Henry, really!	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Oh Henry, Henry, wirklich!
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [half rising] Are we in the way?	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [erhebt sich halb]: Stören wir?
•MRS. HIGGINS [rising and making her sit down again] No, no. •You couldn't have come more fortunately: we want you to meet a friend of ours.	•MRS. HIGGINS [ steht auf und bringt sie dazu, sich wieder zu setzen]: Nein, nein. •Sie hätten es nicht besser treffen können: Wir möchten, dass Sie einen Freund von uns kennenlernen.
•HIGGINS [turning hopefully] Yes, by George! •We want two or three people. •You'll do as well as anybody else.	•HIGGINS: (dreht sich erwartungsvoll um) Ja, bei Gott! •Wir wollen zwei oder drei Leute. •Sie werden es genauso gut machen wie jeder andere.
•The parlor-maid returns, ushering Freddy.	•Das Stubenmädchen kehrt zurück und führt Freddy herein.
•THE PARLOR-MAID. •Mr. Eynsford Hill.	•DAS STUBENMÄDCHEN: •Mr. Eynsford Hill.
•HIGGINS [almost audibly, past endurance] God of Heaven! •another of them.	•HIGGINS: [fast vernehmbar, vorbei mit seiner Geduld] Gott im Himmel! •noch einer von denen.
•FREDDY [shaking hands with Mrs. Higgins] Ahdedo?	•FREDDY: [Händeschütteln mit Mrs. Higgins) Wie gehts, wie stehts?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Very good of you to come. •[Introducing] Colonel Pickering.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Schön, dass Sie gekommen sind. •[stellt sich vor] Colonel Pickering.
•FREDDY [bowing] Ahdedo?	•FREDDY [verbeugt sich]: Wie gehts, wie stehts?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •I don't think you know my son, Professor Higgins.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Ich glaube, Sie kennen meinen Sohn nicht, Professor Higgins.
•FREDDY [going to Higgins] Ahdedo?	•FREDDY [geht zu Higgins): Angenehm!
•HIGGINS [looking at him much as if he were a pickpocket] I'll take my oath I've met you before somewhere. •Where was it?	•HIGGINS [schaut ihn an genauso an, als wäre er ein Langfinger]: Ich könnte darauf schwören, dass ich Sie irgendwo schon einmal getroffen habe. •Wo war es?
•FREDDY. •I don't think so.	•FREDDY: •Ich glaube nicht.
•HIGGINS [resignedly] It don't matter, anyhow. •Sit down. •He shakes Freddy's hand, and almost slings him on the ottoman with his face to the windows; then comes round to the other side of it.	•HIGGINS [resigniert]: Es ist auch nicht so wichtig. •Setzen Sie sich. •[Er schüttelt Freddys Hand und wirft ihn beinahe auf die Ottomane mit dem Gesicht zum Fenster; dann geht er auf die andere Seite von ihr.]
•HIGGINS. •Well, here we are, anyhow! •[He sits down on the ottoman next Mrs. Eynsford Hill, on her left.] •And now, what the devil are we going to talk about until Eliza comes?	•HIGGINS: •Nun, jedenfalls sind wir hier!! •[Er setzt sich auf die Ottomane neben Mrs. Eynsford Hill, zu ihrer Linken.] •Und worüber reden wir zum Teufel bis Eliza kommt?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Henry: you are the life and soul of the Royal Society's soirees; but really you're rather trying on more commonplace occasions.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Henry, du bist das Herz und die Seele der Soireen der Royal Society; aber du solltest es wirklich mehr bei alltäglichen Gelegenheiten üben.
•HIGGINS. •Am I? •Very sorry. •[Beaming suddenly] I suppose I am, you know. •[Uproariously] Ha, ha!	•Higgins: •Bin ich? •Tut mir schrecklich leid. •[ Plötzlich freudestrahlend ]: Ich vermute, ich bin es, weißt du. •[ Schallend lachend ]: Ha, ha!
•MISS EYNSFORD HILL [who considers Higgins quite eligible matrimonially] I sympathize. •I haven't any small talk. •If people would only be frank and say what they really think!	•MISS EYNSFORD HILL[die Higgins für durchaus heiratsfähig hält]: Ich habe Verständnis dafür. •Ich habe keinen Smalltalk. •Wenn die Leute nur offen wären und sagen würden, was sie wirklich denken!
•HIGGINS [relapsing into gloom] Lord forbid!	•HIGGINS[hat einen Trübsinnsrückfall]: Gott bewahre!
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [taking up her daughter's cue] But why?	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL[nimmt das Stichwort ihrer Tochter auf]: Aber warum?
•HIGGINS. •What they think they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows; but what they really think would break up the whole show. •Do you suppose it would be really agreeable if I were to come out now with what I really think?	•HIGGINS: •Was sie denken, dass sie denken sollten, ist schlimm genug, weiß Gott; aber was sie wirklich denken, würde die ganze Show sprengen. •Glauben Sie, es wäre wirklich angenehm, wenn ich jetzt mit dem, was ich wirklich denke, herauskommen würde?
•MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] Is it so very cynical?	•MISS EYNSFORD HILL[fröhlich]: Ist es so sehr zynisch?
•HIGGINS. •Cynical! •Who the dickens said it was cynical? •I mean it wouldn't be decent.	•HIGGINS: •Zynisch! •Wer zum Teufel hat gesagt, dass es zynisch ist? •Ich meine, es wäre nicht anständig.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [seriously] Oh! •I'm sure you don't mean that, Mr. Higgins.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL[ernsthaft]: Oh! •Ich bin sicher, das meinen Sie nicht ernst, Mr. Higgins.
•HIGGINS. •You see, we're all savages, more or less. •We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names? •[To Miss Hill] What do you know of poetry? •[To Mrs. Hill] What do you know of science? •[Indicating Freddy] What does he know of art or science or anything else? •What the devil do you imagine I know of philosophy?	•HIGGINS: •Sehen Sie, wir sind alle Wilde, mehr oder weniger. •Wir sind vermeintlich so zivilisiert und kultiviert - wissen alles über Poesie, Philosophie, Kunst und Wissenschaft und so weiter; aber wie viele von uns kennen überhaupt die Bedeutung dieser Bezeichnungen? •[ Zu Miss Hill]: Was wissen Sie über Poesie? •[Zu Mrs. Hill]:Was wissen Sie über Wissenschaft? •[weist auf Freddy]: Was weiß er über Kunst oder Wissenschaft oder sonst etwas? •Was zum Teufel denkst du, was ich über Philosophie weiß?
•MRS. HIGGINS [warningly] Or of manners, Henry?	•MRS. HIGGINS[warnend]: Oder vom Benehmen, Henry?
•THE PARLOR-MAID [opening the door] Miss Doolittle. •[She withdraws].	•DAS STUBENMÄDCHEN [ öffnet die Tür]: Miss Doolittle. •[ Sie zieht sich zurück].
•HIGGINS [rising hastily and running to Mrs. Higgins] Here she is, mother. •[He stands on tiptoe and makes signs over his mother's head to Eliza to indicate to her which lady is her hostess].	•HIGGINS[steht hastig auf und läuft zu Mrs. Higgins ]: Hier ist sie, Mutter. •[Er steht auf Zehenspitzen und macht Eliza Zeichen über dem Kopf seiner Mutter, um ihr anzuzeigen, welche Dame ihre Gastgeberin ist].
•Eliza, who is exquisitely dressed, produces an impression of such remarkable distinction and beauty as she enters that they all rise, quite flustered. •Guided by Higgins's signals, she comes to Mrs. Higgins with studied grace.	•Eliza, die exquisit gekleidet ist, vermittelt einen Eindruck von so bemerkenswerter Erstklassigkeit und Schönheit, dass sie alle, als sie eintritt, aufstehen, ziemlich verwirrt. •Geleitet von Higgins' Signalen, kommt sie mit einstudierter Anmut zu Mrs. Higgins.
•LIZA [speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone] How do you do, Mrs. Higgins? •[She gasps slightly in making sure of the H in Higgins, but is quite successful]. •Mr. Higgins told me I might come.	•LIZA [spricht mit pedantischer Korrektheit der Aussprache und großer Schönheit des Tons]: Wie geht es Ihnen, Mrs.Higgins? •[Sie keucht leicht, um sicherzustellen, dass sie das H in Higgins richtig ausspricht, ist aber ziemlich erfolgreich]. •Mr. Higgins sagte mir, ich könne kommen.
•MRS. HIGGINS [cordially] Quite right: I'm very glad indeed to see you.	•MRS. HIGGINS [herzlich]: Ganz richtig. Ich bin sehr froh, Sie zu sehen.
•PICKERING. •How do you do, Miss Doolittle?	•PICKERING: •Guten Tag, Miss Doolittle?
•LIZA [shaking hands with him] Colonel Pickering, is it not?	•LIZA [ schüttelt ihm die Hand] : Colonel Pickering, nicht wahr?
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •I feel sure we have met before, Miss Doolittle. •I remember your eyes.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Ich bin sicher, wir haben uns schon früher getroffen, Miss Doolittle. •Ich erinnere mich an Ihre Augen.
•LIZA. •How do you do? •[She sits down on the ottoman gracefully in the place just left vacant by Higgins].	•LIZA: •Wie geht es Ihnen? •[Sie setzt sich anmutig auf die Ottomane an den Platz, der gerade von Higgins freigemacht wurde].
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My daughter Clara.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL[stellt vor]: Meine Tochter Clara.
•LIZA. •How do you do?	•LIZA: •Guten Tag.
•CLARA [impulsively] How do you do? •[She sits down on the ottoman beside Eliza, devouring her with her eyes].	•CLARA [impulsiv]: Guten Tag. •[ Sie setzt sich auf die Ottomane neben Eliza und verschlingt sie mit ihren Augen].
•FREDDY [coming to their side of the ottoman] I've certainly had the pleasure.	•FREDDY[kommt auf ihre Seite der Ottomane]: Ich hatte sicherlich das Vergnügen.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My son Freddy.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [stellt vor]: Mein Sohn Freddy.
•LIZA. •How do you do?	•LIZA: •Guten Tag.
•Freddy bows and sits down in the Elizabethan chair, infatuated.	•Freddy verbeugt sich und setzt sich auf den elisabethanischen Stuhl, verliebt.
•HIGGINS [suddenly] By George, yes: it all comes back to me! •[They stare at him]. •Covent Garden! •[Lamentably] What a damned thing!	•HIGGINS[plötzlich]: Bei Gott, ja. Ich erinnere mich! •[Sie starren ihn an]. •Covent Garden! •[Kläglich]: Was für ein verdammtes Ding!
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Henry, please! •[He is about to sit on the edge of the table]. •Don't sit on my writing-table: you'll break it.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Henry, bitte! •[Er ist gerade dabei, sich auf den Rand des Tisches zu setzen]. •Setz dich nicht auf meinen Schreibtisch: Du machst ihn noch kaputt.
•HIGGINS [sulkily] Sorry.	•HIGGINS [mürrisch]: Entschuldigung.
•He goes to the divan, stumbling into the fender and over the fire-irons on his way; extricating himself with muttered imprecations; and finishing his disastrous journey by throwing himself so impatiently on the divan that he almost breaks it. •Mrs. Higgins looks at him, but controls herself and says nothing.	•Er geht zum Diwan, stolpert über das Kamingitter und die Feuereisen auf seinem Weg, befreit sich mit gemurmelten Flüchen und beendet seinen desaströsen Weg, indem er sich so ungeduldig auf das Diwan wirft, dass er ihn fast kaputt macht. •Mrs. Higgins schaut ihn an, beherrscht sich aber und sagt nichts.
•A long and painful pause ensues.	•Es folgt eine lange, peinliche Pause.
•MRS. HIGGINS [at last, conversationally] Will it rain, do you think?	•MRS. HIGGINS [endlich, im Plauderton]: Wird es regnen, was meinen Sie?
•LIZA. •The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. •There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.	•LIZA: •Das leichte Tief im Westen dieser Inseln wird sich wahrscheinlich langsam in östliche Richtung verschieben. •Es gibt keine Anzeichen für eine große Veränderung des Luftdrucks.
•FREDDY. •Ha! •ha! •how awfully funny!	•FREDDY: •Hach! •ha! •Wie schrecklich komisch!
•LIZA. •What is wrong with that, young man? •I bet I got it right.	•LIZA: •Was spricht dagegen, junger Mann? •Ich wette, ich habe es richtig verstanden.
•FREDDY. •Killing!	•FREDDY: •Zum Totlachen!
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •I'm sure I hope it won't turn cold. •There's so much influenza about. •It runs right through our whole family regularly every spring.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Ich hoffe sehr, dass es nicht kalt wird. •Um einen herum herrscht so viel Grippe. •Sie durchläuft regelmäßig im Frühjahr unsere ganze Familie.
•LIZA [darkly] My aunt died of influenza: so they said.	•LIZA [düster]: Meine Tante starb an Influenza, so sagt man.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [clicks her tongue sympathetically]!!!	•MRS. EYNSDORD HILL [schnalzt verständnisvoll mit der Zunge]: !!!
•LIZA [in the same tragic tone] But it's my belief they done the old woman in.	•LIZA [in demselben tragischen Ton]: Aber ich glaube, dass sie die alte Dame abgemurkst haben.
•MRS. HIGGINS [puzzled] Done her in?	•MRS. HIGGINS [verwirrt]: Abgemurkst?
•LIZA. •Y-e-e-e-es, Lord love you! •Why should she die of influenza? •She come through diphtheria right enough the year before. •I saw her with my own eyes. •Fairly blue with it, she was. •They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon.	•LIZA: •Jaaaaa, Gott hab' sie selig. •Warum sollte sie an Influenza sterben? •Sie übersteht Diphtherie problemlos im Jahr davor. •Ich sah sie mit meinen eigenen Augen. •Einigermaßen blau war sie dabei. •Alle dachten, sie sei tot; aber mein Vater löffelte ihr Gin in den Rachen bis sie so plötzlich zu sich kam, dass sie den Kopf des Löffels abbiss.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [startled] Dear me!	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [aufgeschreckt]: Ach, du meine Güte!
•LIZA [piling up the indictment] What call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? •What become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? •Somebody pinched it; and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in.	•LIZA [die Anklage weiterführend]: Welchen Grund hat eine Frau mit dieser Stärke in sich, an Influenza zu sterben? •Was wird mit ihrem neuen Strohhut, den ich bekommen sollte? •Jemand klaute ihn; und was ich sage ist, die ihn klauten, haben sie abgemurkst.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •What does doing her in mean?	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Was bedeutet "sie abmurksen"?
•HIGGINS [hastily] Oh, that's the new small talk. •To do a person in means to kill them.	•HIGGINS [hastig]: Oh, das ist die neue Art der Plauderei. •Eine Person abmurksen bedeutet, sie zu ermorden.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Eliza, horrified] You surely don't believe that your aunt was killed?	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [zu Eliza, entsetzt]: Sie denken doch sicher nicht, dass Ihre Tante ermordet wurde?
•LIZA. •Do I not! •Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat.	•LIZA: •Aber sicher doch! •Die bei ihr wohnten hätten sie für eine Hutnadel ermordet, geschweige denn für einen Hut.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •But it can't have been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat like that. •It might have killed her.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Aber es kann von Ihrem Vater nicht richtig sein, ihr auf diese Weise Spirituosen in den Rachen einzuflößen. •Es hätte sie töten können.
•LIZA. •Not her. •Gin was mother's milk to her. •Besides, he'd poured so much down his own throat that he knew the good of it.	•LIZA: •Sie nicht. •Gin war Muttermilch für sie. •Darüber hinaus hatte er so viel in die eigene Kehle gegossen, dass er wusste, es war gut.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Do you mean that he drank?	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Sie wollen sagen, dass er trank?
•LIZA. •Drank! •My word! •Something chronic.	•LIZA: •Trank! •Du meine Güte! •Irgendetwas Chronisches.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •How dreadful for you!	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Wie schrecklich für Sie!
•LIZA. •Not a bit. •It never did him no harm what I could see. •But then he did not keep it up regular. •[Cheerfully] On the burst, as you might say, from time to time. •And always more agreeable when he had a drop in. •When he was out of work, my mother used to give him fourpence and tell him to go out and not come back until he'd drunk himself cheerful and loving-like. •There's lots of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with. •[Now quite at her ease] You see, it's like this. •If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he's sober; and then it makes him low-spirited. •A drop of booze just takes that off and makes him happy. •[To Freddy, who is in convulsions of suppressed laughter] Here! •what are you sniggering at?	•LIZA: •Kein bisschen. •Es hat ihm nie geschadet, soweit ich das sehe. •Aber davon abgesehen, hat er es nicht regelmäßig getan. •[Fröhlich] Je nachdem, wie man sagen könnte, von Zeit zu Zeit. •Und immer verträglicher, wenn er einen Schluck intus hatte. •Wenn er keine Arbeit hatte, gab ihm meine Mutter regelmäßig Fourpence und sagte ihm, er solle weggehen und nicht zurückkommen, bevor er sich fröhlich und liebendswürdig getrunken hatte. •Es gibt sehr viele Frauen, die ihre Ehemänner betrunken machen müssen, um mit ihnen auskommen zu können. •[Nun sehr ruhig] Sie sehen, es ist so. •Wenn ein Mann irgendwie ein Gewissen hat, packt es ihn immer wenn er nüchtern ist; und dann wird er dadurch niedergeschlagen. •Ein Schluck Schnaps beseitigt das und macht ihn glücklich. •[Zu Freddy, der sich vor unterdrücktem Lachen schüttelt]: Hier! •Worüber kicherst du?
•FREDDY. •The new small talk. •You do it so awfully well.	•FREDDY: •Der neue Small Talk. •Sie machen es so unglaublich gut.
•LIZA. •If I was doing it proper, what was you laughing at? •[To Higgins] Have I said anything I oughtn't?	•LIZA: •Wenn ich es richtig gemacht habe, worüber lachst du dann? •[Zu Higgins] Habe ich irgendetwas gesagt, was ich nicht hätte sagen sollen?
•MRS. HIGGINS [interposing] Not at all, Miss Doolittle.	•MRS. HIGGINS [wirft dazwischen]: Überhaupt nicht, Miss Doolittle.
•LIZA. •Well, that's a mercy, anyhow. •[Expansively] What I always say is— HIGGINS [rising and looking at his watch] Ahem!	•LIZA: •Nun, das ist sowieso eine Gnade. •[Mitteilsam]: Was ich immer sage, ist-HIGGINS [steht auf und schaut auf seine Uhr] Ähem!
•LIZA [looking round at him; taking the hint; and rising] Well: I must go. •[They all rise. •Freddy goes to the door]. •So pleased to have met you. •Good-bye. •[She shakes hands with Mrs. Higgins].	•LIZA [schaut um ihn herum, nimmt den Hinweis entgegen und erhebt sich]: Nun, ich muss gehen. •[Sie stehen alle auf. •Freddy geht zur Tür]. •Ich freue mich, Sie kennengelernt zu haben. •Auf Wiedersehen. •[Sie schüttelt Mrs. Higgins die Hand].
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Good-bye.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Auf Wiedersehen.
•LIZA. •Good-bye, Colonel Pickering.	•LIZA: •Auf Wiedersehen, Colonel Pickering.
•PICKERING. •Good-bye, Miss Doolittle. •[They shake hands].	•PICKERING: •Auf Wiedersehen, Miss Doolittle. •[Sie schütteln die Hände].
•LIZA [nodding to the others] Good-bye, all.	•LIZA [nickt den anderen zu]: Auf Wiedersehen, alle zusammen.
•FREDDY [opening the door for her] Are you walking across the Park, Miss Doolittle? •If so— LIZA. •Walk! •Not bloody likely. •[Sensation]. •I am going in a taxi. •[She goes out].	•FREDDY [öffnet ihr die Tür]: Gehen Sie durch den Park, Miss Doolittle? •Wenn ja - LIZA: •Gehen! •Nicht sehr wahrscheinlich. •[Sensation]: •Ich nehme ein Taxi. •[Sie geht hinaus].
•Pickering gasps and sits down. •Freddy goes out on the balcony to catch another glimpse of Eliza.	•Pickering japst nach Luft und setzt sich hin. •Freddy geht hinaus auf den Balkon, um noch einen Blick auf Eliza zu werfen.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [suffering from shock] Well, I really can't get used to the new ways.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [leidet unter Schock:] Nun, ich kann mich wirklich nicht an die neuen Methoden gewöhnen.
•CLARA [throwing herself discontentedly into the Elizabethan chair]. •Oh, it's all right, mamma, quite right. •People will think we never go anywhere or see anybody if you are so old-fashioned.	•CLARA [wirft sich unzufrieden in den elisabethanischen Stuhl]: •Oh, es ist alles in Ordnung, Mama, völlig richtig. •Die Leute werden denken, dass wir nie irgendwo hingehen oder jemanden sehen, wenn du so altmodisch bist.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •I daresay I am very old-fashioned; but I do hope you won't begin using that expression, Clara. •I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unladylike. •But this last is really too much. •Don't you think so, Colonel Pickering?	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Ich wage zu behaupten, dass ich sehr altmodisch bin, aber ich hoffe, dass du diesen Ausdruck nicht verwenden wirst, Clara. •Ich habe mich daran gewöhnt, dass du von Männern als Schurken sprichst und alles schmutzig und tierisch nennst; obwohl ich es für schrecklich und unladylike halte. •Aber das Letzte ist wirklich zu viel. •Was denken Sie, Colonel Pickering?
•PICKERING. •Don't ask me. •I've been away in India for several years; and manners have changed so much that I sometimes don't know whether I'm at a respectable dinner-table or in a ship's forecastle.	•PICKERING: •Fragen Sie mich nicht. •Ich bin einige Jahre lang in Indien gewesen, und die Manieren haben sich so sehr verändert, dass ich manchmal nicht weiß, ob ich an einem respektablen Esstisch oder auf dem Vordeck eines Schiffes bin.
•CLARA. •It's all a matter of habit. •There's no right or wrong in it. •Nobody means anything by it. •And it's so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty. •I find the new small talk delightful and quite innocent.	•CLARA: •Es ist alles eine Frage der Gewohnheit. •Es gibt kein Richtig oder Falsch darin. •Niemand meint damit etwas. •Und es ist so kurios und gibt den Dingen, die nicht sehr witzig sind, eine intelligent Bedeutung. •Ich finde die neue Plauderei entzückend und völlig harmlos.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [rising] Well, after that, I think it's time for us to go.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [steht auf]: Nun denn, ich denke, es ist Zeit für uns zu gehen.
•Pickering and Higgins rise.	•[Pickering und Higgins erheben sich.]
•CLARA [rising] Oh yes: we have three at homes to go to still. •Good-bye, Mrs. Higgins. •Good-bye, Colonel Pickering. •Good-bye, Professor Higgins.	•Clara [steht auf]: Oh ja, wir haben noch drei Besuche zu machen. •Auf Wiedersehen, Mrs. Higgins. •Auf Wiedersehen, Colonel Pickering. •Auf Wiedersehen, Professor Higgins.
•HIGGINS [coming grimly at her from the divan, and accompanying her to the door] Good-bye. •Be sure you try on that small talk at the three at-homes. •Don't be nervous about it. •Pitch it in strong.	•HIGGINS [kommt grimmig vom Diwan und begleitet sie zur Tür]: Auf Wiedersehen. •Ich bin sicher, Sie werden diese Plauderei bei sich zu Hause ausprobieren. •Seien Sie deswegen nicht nervös. •Packen Sie es mit Stärke an.
•CLARA [all smiles] I will. •Good-bye. •Such nonsense, all this early Victorian prudery!	•CLARA [lächelt über das ganze Gesicht]: Das werde ich. •Auf Wiedersehen. •Solch ein Unsinn, all diese frühviktorianische Prüderie!
•HIGGINS [tempting her] Such damned nonsense!	•HIGGINS [führt sie in Versuchung]: Solch ein verdammter Unsinn!
•CLARA. •Such bloody nonsense!	•CLARA: •Solch ein wirklich verfluchter Unsinn!
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [convulsively] Clara!	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [zuckt krampfartig zusammen]: Clara!
•CLARA. •Ha! •ha! •[She goes out radiant, conscious of being thoroughly up to date, and is heard descending the stairs in a stream of silvery laughter].	•CLARA: •Ha! •Ha! •[Sie geht strahlend hinaus, im Bewusstsein durch und durch auf dem Laufenden zu sein, und man hört sie die Treppe hinuntergehen in einem Strom silbernen Lachens.]
•FREDDY [to the heavens at large] Well, I ask you [He gives it up, and comes to Mrs. Higgins]. •Good-bye.	•FREDDY [zu niemandem bestimmten]: Nun, ich frage Sie ... [Er gibt auf und geht zu Mrs. Higgins.] •Auf Wiedersehen.
•MRS. HIGGINS [shaking hands] Good-bye. •Would you like to meet Miss Doolittle again?	•MRS. HIGGINS [händeschüttelnd]: Auf Wiedersehen. •Möchten Sie Miss Doolittle wiedersehen?
•FREDDY [eagerly] Yes, I should, most awfully.	•FREDDY [begierig]: Ja, ich möchte es, schrecklich gern.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Well, you know my days.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Nun, Sie kennen meine Empfangstage.
•FREDDY. •Yes. •Thanks awfully. •Good-bye. •[He goes out].	•FREDDY: •Ja. •Vielen, vielen Dank. •Auf Wiedersehen. •[Er geht hinaus.]
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Good-bye, Mr. Higgins.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Auf Wiedersehen, Mr. Higgins.
•HIGGINS. •Good-bye. •Good-bye.	•HIGGINS: •Auf Wiedersehen. •Auf Wiedersehen.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Pickering] It's no use. •I shall never be able to bring myself to use that word.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [an Pickering] Es hat keinen Zweck. •Ich werde mich nie dazu durchringen können, das Wort zu benutzen.
•PICKERING. •Don't. •It's not compulsory, you know. •You'll get on quite well without it.	•PICKERING: •Tun Sie das nicht. •Es ist nicht verpflichtend, wissen Sie. •Sie werden ganz gut ohne es auskommen.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Only, Clara is so down on me if I am not positively reeking with the latest slang. •Good-bye.	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Nur Clara ist deprimiert durch mich, wenn ich nicht überzeugt den aktuellen Jargon ausstoße. •Auf Wiedersehen.
•PICKERING. •Good-bye [They shake hands].	•PICKERING: •Auf Wiedersehen [Sie schütteln sich die Hände].
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] You mustn't mind Clara. •[Pickering, catching from her lowered tone that this is not meant for him to hear, discreetly joins Higgins at the window]. •We're so poor! •and she gets so few parties, poor child! •She doesn't quite know. •[Mrs. Higgins, seeing that her eyes are moist, takes her hand sympathetically and goes with her to the door]. •But the boy is nice. •Don't you think so?	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [zu Mrs. Higgins]: Sie dürfen Clara nicht beachten. •[Pickering, der am gesenkten Tonfall erkennt, dass dies nicht für seine Ohren bestimmt ist, geht diskret zu Higgins ans Fenster.] •Wir sind so arm! •Und sie bekommt so wenige Einladungen, armes Kind! •Sie weiß es nicht besser. •[Mrs. Higgins sieht, dass ihre Augen feucht sind, nimmt ihre Hand teilnahmsvoll und geht mit ihr zur Tür.] •Aber der Junge ist nett. •Denken Sie nicht?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Oh, quite nice. •I shall always be delighted to see him.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Oh, wirklich nett. •Ich werde immer erfreut sein, ihn zu sehen.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Thank you, dear. •Good-bye. •[She goes out].	•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL: •Danke, meine Liebe. •Auf Wiedersehen. •[Sie geht hinaus.]
•HIGGINS [eagerly] Well? •Is Eliza presentable [he swoops on his mother and drags her to the ottoman, where she sits down in Eliza's place with her son on her left]?	•HIGGINS [begierig]: Nun? •Ist Eliza gesellschaftsfähig? [er stößt auf seine Mutter nieder und zieht sie zu der Ottomane, wo sie sich auf Elizas Platz zur Linken ihres Sohnes setzt]
•Pickering returns to his chair on her right.	•[Pickering kehrt zu seinem Stuhl zu ihrer Rechten zurück.]
•MRS. HIGGINS. •You silly boy, of course she's not presentable. •She's a triumph of your art and of her dressmaker's; but if you suppose for a moment that she doesn't give herself away in every sentence she utters, you must be perfectly cracked about her.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Du dummer Junge, natürlich ist sie nicht gesellschaftsfähig. •Sie ist ein Triumph deiner Kunst und der ihrer Schneiderin; aber falls du nur einen Moment lang annimmst, dass sie sich nicht mit jedem Satz, den sie ausspricht, verrät, dann muss du völlig verrückt nach ihr sein.
•PICKERING. •But don't you think something might be done? •I mean something to eliminate the sanguinary element from her conversation.	•PICKERING: •Aber denken Sie nicht, man könnte etwas machen? •Ich meine etwas, um das blutrünstige Element aus ihrer Konversation zu entfernen.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Not as long as she is in Henry's hands.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Nicht so lange sie in Henrys Händen ist.
•HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?	•HIGGINS [gekränkt]: Meinst du, meine Sprache ist unangemessen?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •No, dearest: it would be quite proper—say on a canal barge; but it would not be proper for her at a garden party.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Nein, Lieber, sie wäre angemessen - sagen wir auf einem Kanalschiff; aber sie wäre nicht angemessen für sie auf einer Gartenparty.
•HIGGINS [deeply injured] Well I must say— PICKERING [interrupting him] Come, Higgins: you must learn to know yourself. •I haven't heard such language as yours since we used to review the volunteers in Hyde Park twenty years ago.	•HIGGINS [tief verletzt]: Also, ich muss sagen - PICKERING [unterbricht ihn]: Komm, Higgins; du musst dich kennenlernen. •Ich habe eine solche Sprache wie deine nicht mehr gehört, seit wir vor zwanzig Jahren die Freiwilligen im Hyde Park inspiziert haben.
•HIGGINS [sulkily] Oh, well, if you say so, I suppose I don't always talk like a bishop.	•HIGGINS [mürrisch]: Oh, nun, wenn du es so sagst, ich nehme an, ich spreche nicht ständig wie ein Bischof.
•MRS. HIGGINS [quieting Henry with a touch] Colonel Pickering: will you tell me what is the exact state of things in Wimpole Street?	•MRS. HIGGINS [bringt Henry mit einer Berührung zum Schweigen]: Colonel Pickering, sagen Sie mir, was genau der Stand der Dinge in der Wimpole Street ist?
•PICKERING [cheerfully: as if this completely changed the subject] Well, I have come to live there with Henry. •We work together at my Indian Dialects; and we think it more convenient— MRS. HIGGINS. •Quite so. •I know all about that: it's an excellent arrangement. •But where does this girl live?	•PICKERING [fröhlich, als gäbe es einen völligen Themenwechsel]: Nun, ich bin dorthin gekommen, um mit Henry zu leben. •Wir arbeiten zusammen an meinen indischen Dialekten; und wir denken es ist angenehmer - MRS. HIGGINS: •Ja, genau. •Darüber weiß ich alles, es ist eine ausgezeichnete Vereinbarung. •Aber wo lebt dieses Mädchen?
•HIGGINS. •With us, of course. •Where would she live?	•HIGGINS: •Bei uns natürlich. •Wo sollte sie sonst leben?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •But on what terms? •Is she a servant? •If not, what is she?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Aber zu welchen Bedingungen? •Ist sie eine Bedienstete? •Falls nicht, was ist sie?
•PICKERING [slowly] I think I know what you mean, Mrs. Higgins.	•PICKERING [langsam]: Ich denke, ich weiß, was Sie meinen, Mrs. Higgins.
•HIGGINS. •Well, dash me if I do! •I've had to work at the girl every day for months to get her to her present pitch. •Besides, she's useful. •She knows where my things are, and remembers my appointments and so forth.	•HIGGINS: •Nun, schlagt mich, wenn ich es täte! •Ich habe monatelang jeden Tag hart an dem Mädchen gearbeitet, um es auf den jetzigen Stand zu bringen. •Außerdem ist sie nützlich. •Sie weiß, wo meine Sachen sind, erinnert mich an Verabredungen und so weiter.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •How does your housekeeper get on with her?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Wie kommt deine Haushälterin mit ihr zurecht?
•HIGGINS. •Mrs. Pearce? •Oh, she's jolly glad to get so much taken off her hands; for before Eliza came, she had to have to find things and remind me of my appointments. •But she's got some silly bee in her bonnet about Eliza. •She keeps saying "You don't think, sir": doesn't she, Pick?	•HIGGINS: •Mrs. Pearce? •Oh, sie ist heilfroh, dass ihr so viel abgenommen wird; denn bevor Eliza kam, musste sie Sachrn suchen und mich an meine Verabredungen erinnern. •Aber sie hat einen verrückten Floh im Ohr wegen Eliza. •Sie sagt immer "Sie denken nicht nach, Sir", ist es nicht so, Pick?
•PICKERING. •Yes: that's the formula. •"You don't think, sir." •That's the end of every conversation about Eliza.	•PICKERING: •Ja, das ist sie Formulierung. •"Sie denken nicht nach, Sir." •Das ist das Ende jedes Gesprächs über Eliza.
•HIGGINS. •As if I ever stop thinking about the girl and her confounded vowels and consonants. •I'm worn out, thinking about her, and watching her lips and her teeth and her tongue, not to mention her soul, which is the quaintest of the lot.	•HIGGINS: •Als ob ich jemals aufhörte über das Mädchen und ihre verwischten Vokale und Konsonanten nachzudenken. •Ich bin erschöpft davon, über sie nachzudenken, ihre Lippen, ihre Zähne und ihre Zunge zu beobachten, ganz zu schweigen von ihrer Seele, die das Kurioseste von allem ist.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •You certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Ihr seid ganz sicher ein hübsches Paar von Babys, die mit einer lebenden Puppe spielen.
•HIGGINS. •Playing! •The hardest job I ever tackled: make no mistake about that, mother. •But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. •It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.	•HIGGINS: •Spielen! •Die härteste Aufgabe, die ich jemals hatte; täusche dich nicht darüber, Mutter. •Aber du hast keine Ahnung, wie schrecklich interessant es ist, einen Menschen zu nehmen und ihn in einen anderen Menschen zu verwandeln, indem man ihm eine neue Sprache gibt. •Es füllt die tiefste Kluft, die Klasse von Klase und Seele von Seele trennt.
•PICKERING [drawing his chair closer to Mrs. Higgins and bending over to her eagerly] Yes: it's enormously interesting. •I assure you, Mrs. Higgins, we take Eliza very seriously. •Every week—every day almost—there is some new change. •[Closer again] We keep records of every stage—dozens of gramophone disks and photographs— HIGGINS [assailing her at the other ear] Yes, by George: it's the most absorbing experiment I ever tackled. •She regularly fills our lives up; doesn't she, Pick?	•PICKERING [zieht seinen Stuhl zu Mrs. Higgins und beugt sich eifrig zu ihr]: Ja, es ist ungeheuer interessant. •Ich versichere Ihnen, Mrs. Higgins, wir nehmen Eliza sehr ernst. •Jede Woche - fast jeden Tag - gibt es irgendeine neue Veränderung. •[Noch näher] Wir haben Aufnahmen von jeder Phase - Dutzende von Grammaphonplatten und Fotografien - HIIGGINS [bestürmt sie von der anderen Seite]: Ja, bei George, es ist das interessanteste Experiment, das ich je in Angriff genommen habe. •Sie füllt unser Leben regelrecht aus; ist es nicht so, Pick?
•PICKERING. •We're always talking Eliza.	•PICKERING: •Wir reden ständig über Eliza.
•HIGGINS. •Teaching Eliza.	•HIGGINS: •Unterrichten Eliza.
•PICKERING. •Dressing Eliza.	•PICKERING: •Kleiden Eliza.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •What!	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Was!
•HIGGINS. •Inventing new Elizas.	•HIGGINS: •Erfinden neue Elizas.
•Higgins and Pickering, speaking together: HIGGINS. •You know, she has the most extraordinary quickness of ear: PICKERING. •I assure you, my dear Mrs. Higgins, that girl HIGGINS. •just like a parrot. •I've tried her with every PICKERING. •is a genius. •She can play the piano quite beautifully HIGGINS. •possible sort of sound that a human being can make— PICKERING. •We have taken her to classical concerts and to music HIGGINS. •Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot PICKERING. •halls; and it's all the same to her: she plays everything HIGGINS. •clicks, things it took me years to get hold of; and PICKERING. •she hears right off when she comes home, whether it's HIGGINS. •she picks them up like a shot, right away, as if she had PICKERING. •Beethoven and Brahms or Lehar and Lionel Morickton; HIGGINS. •been at it all her life.	•[Higgins und Pickering sprechen gleichzeitig] HIGGINS: •Weißt du, sie hat ein außerordentliches schnelles Ohr; PICKERING: •Ich versichere es Ihnen, meine liebe Mrs. Higgins, dieses Mädchen - HIGGINS: •wie ein Papagei. •Ich habe alles ausprobiert, jeden - PICKERING: •ist ein Genie. •Sie kann ganz wunderbar Klavier spielen - HIGGINS: •möglichen Art von Ton, den ein Mensch hervorbringen kann - PICKERING: •Wir haben sie zu klassischen Konzerten mitgenommen und zum Konzert - HIGGINS: •Dialekte vom Festland, afrikanische Dialekte, die Klicksprache der Hottentotten, - PICKERING: •haus; und es ist ihr einerlei; sie spielt alles, - HIGGINS: •Dinge, für die ich Jahre benötigt habe, um sie zu erlangen; und - PICKERING: •was sie hört sofort, wenn sie nach Hause kommt, egal, ob - HIGGINS: •sie nimmt sie sofort auf, so als hätte - PICKERING: •Beethoven, Brahms, Lehar und Lionel Morickton; HIGGINS: •sie sie ihr ganzes Leben schon benutzt.
•PICKERING. •though six months ago, she'd never as much as touched a piano.	•PICKERING: •obwohl sie bis vor sechs Monaten so gut wie nie ein Klavier berührt hat.
•MRS. HIGGINS [putting her fingers in her ears, as they are by this time shouting one another down with an intolerable noise] Sh—sh—sh—sh! •[They stop].	•MRS. HIGGINS [steckt sich die Finger in die Ohren, weil sie sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt mit unerträglicher Lautstärke niederschreien]: Sch - sch - sch - sch! •[Sie hören auf.]
•PICKERING. •I beg your pardon. •[He draws his chair back apologetically].	•PICKERING: •Ich bitte um Verzeihung. •[Er zieht seinen Stuhl Entschuldigung heischend zurück.]
•HIGGINS. •Sorry. •When Pickering starts shouting nobody can get a word in edgeways.	•HIGGINS: •Entschuldigung. •Wenn Pickering anfängt zu schreien, kommt niemand mehr zu Wort.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Be quiet, Henry. •Colonel Pickering: don't you realize that when Eliza walked into Wimpole Street, something walked in with her?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Sei still, Henry. •Colonel Pickering, erkennen Sie nicht, dass, als Eliza in die Wimpole Street kam, etwas mit ihr hereinkam?
•PICKERING. •Her father did. •But Henry soon got rid of him.	•PICKERING: •Ihr Vater kam herein. •Aber Henry wurde ihn bald los.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •It would have been more to the point if her mother had. •But as her mother didn't something else did.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Es wäre besser gewesen, wenn ihre Mutter gekommen wäre. •Aber ihre Mutter tat nichts dergleichen.
•PICKERING. •But what?	•PICKERING: •Aber was?
•MRS. HIGGINS [unconsciously dating herself by the word] A problem.	•MRS. HIGGINS [sich unbewusst durch das Wort verratend]: Ein Problem.
•PICKERING. •Oh, I see. •The problem of how to pass her off as a lady.	•PICKERING: •Oh, ich weiß. •Das Problem, wie man sie als Lady ausgeben soll.
•HIGGINS. •I'll solve that problem. •I've half solved it already.	•HIGGINS: •Ich werde dieses Problem lösen. •Ich habe es schon halb gelöst.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards.	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Nein, Ihr unendlich dummen, männlichen Kreaturen; das Problem, was aus ihr danach werden soll.
•HIGGINS. •I don't see anything in that. •She can go her own way, with all the advantages I have given her.	•HIGGINS: •Ich sehe da keines. •Sie kann ihrer eigenen Wege gehen, mit all den Vorteilen, die ich ihr gegeben habe.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •The advantages of that poor woman who was here just now! •The manners and habits that disqualify a fine lady from earning her own living without giving her a fine lady's income! •Is that what you mean?	•MRS. HIGGINS: •Die Vorteile dieser armen Frau, die gerade hier war! •Die Manieren und Angewohnheiten, die eine feine Dame davon abhalten, ihren Lebensunterhalt zu verdienen, ohne dass sie ihr das Einkommen einer feinen Dame einbringen! •Ist es das, was du meinst?
•PICKERING [indulgently, being rather bored] Oh, that will be all right, Mrs. Higgins. •[He rises to go].	•PICKERING [nachsichtig, ziemlich gelangweilt]: Oh, das wird schon, Mrs. Higgins. •[Er steht auf, um zu gehen.]
•HIGGINS [rising also] We'll find her some light employment.	•HIGGINS [steht auch auf]: Wir werden ihr eine einfache Anstellung suchen.
•PICKERING. •She's happy enough. •Don't you worry about her. •Good-bye. •[He shakes hands as if he were consoling a frightened child, and makes for the door].	•PICKERING: •Sie ist zufrieden. •Machen Sie sich keine Sorgen um sie. •Auf Wiedersehen. •[Er schüttelt ihre Hand, als ob er ein verängstigtes Kind trösten würde und geht zur Tür.]
•HIGGINS. •Anyhow, there's no good bothering now. •The thing's done. •Good-bye, mother. •[He kisses her, and follows Pickering].	•HIGGINS: •Wie auch immer, es gibt jetzt keine Störung mehr. •Die Dinge sind erledigt. •Auf Wiedersehen, Mutter. •[Er küsst sie und folgt Pickering.]
•PICKERING [turning for a final consolation] There are plenty of openings. •We'll do what's right. •Good-bye.	•PICKERING [dreht sich für einen letzten Trost um]: Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten. •Wir werden das Richtige tun. •Auf Wiedersehen.
•HIGGINS [to Pickering as they go out together] Let's take her to the Shakespear exhibition at Earls Court.	•HIGGINS [zu Pickering während sie zusammen hinausgehen]: Lass uns sie zu der Shakespeare-Ausstellung in Earls Court mitnehmen.
•PICKERING. •Yes: let's. •Her remarks will be delicious.	•PICKERING: •Ja, lass uns das tun. •Ihre Bemerkungen werden köstlich sein.
•HIGGINS. •She'll mimic all the people for us when we get home.	•HIGGINS: •Sie wird für uns alle Leute nachmachen, wenn wir nach Hause kommen.
•PICKERING. •Ripping. •[Both are heard laughing as they go downstairs].	•PICKERING: •Großartig. •[Man hört beide laut lachen, als sie die Treppe hinuntergehen.]
•MRS. HIGGINS [rises with an impatient bounce, and returns to her work at the writing-table. •She sweeps a litter of disarranged papers out of her way; snatches a sheet of paper from her stationery case; and tries resolutely to write. •At the third line she gives it up; flings down her pen; grips the table angrily and exclaims] Oh, men! •men!! •men!! •!	•MRS. HIGGINS [steht mit ungeduldigem Schwung auf und kehrt zu ihrer Arbeit an ihren Schreibtisch zurück. •Sie wischt ein Durcheinander verirrter Papiere aus dem Weg; reißt ein Blatt Papier aus ihrem Briefpapierkästchen; und versucht entschieden zu schreiben. •Bei der dritten Zeile gibt sie auf; wirft ihren Stift hin; packt ärgerlich an denTisch und ruft aus]: Oh, Männer! •Männer!! •Männer!! •!

unit 1

ACT III It is Mrs. Higgins's at-home day.
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Nobody has yet arrived.
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Her drawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows looking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in an older house of the same pretension.
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The windows are open, giving access to a balcony with flowers in pots.
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If you stand with your face to the windows, you have the fireplace on your left and the door in the right-hand wall close to the corner nearest the windows.
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Mrs. Higgins was brought up on Morris and Burne Jones; and her room, which is very unlike her son's room in Wimpole Street, is not crowded with furniture and little tables and nicknacks.
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In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things.
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A few good oil-paintings from the exhibitions in the Grosvenor Gallery thirty years ago (the Burne Jones, not the Whistler side of them) are on the walls.
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The only landscape is a Cecil Lawson on the scale of a Rubens.
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There is a portrait of Mrs. Higgins as she was when she defied fashion in her youth in one of the beautiful Rossettian costumes which, when caricatured by people who did not understand, led to the absurdities of popular estheticism in the eighteen-seventies.
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In the corner diagonally opposite the door Mrs. Higgins, now over sixty and long past taking the trouble to dress out of the fashion, sits writing at an elegantly simple writing-table with a bell button within reach of her hand.
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There is a Chippendale chair further back in the room between her and the window nearest her side.
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At the other side of the room, further forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones.
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On the same side a piano in a decorated case.
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The corner between the fireplace and the window is occupied by a divan cushioned in Morris chintz.
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It is between four and five in the afternoon.
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The door is opened violently; and Higgins enters with his hat on.
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MRS. HIGGINS [dismayed] Henry!
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[scolding him] What are you doing here to-day?
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It is my at home day: you promised not to come.
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[As he bends to kiss her, she takes his hat off, and presents it to him].
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HIGGINS.
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Oh bother!
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[He throws the hat down on the table].
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Go home at once.
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HIGGINS [kissing her] I know, mother.
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I came on purpose.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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But you mustn't.
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I'm serious, Henry.
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You offend all my friends: they stop coming whenever they meet you.
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HIGGINS.
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Nonsense!
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I know I have no small talk; but people don't mind.
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[He sits on the settee].
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Oh!
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don't they?
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Small talk indeed!
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What about your large talk?
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Really, dear, you mustn't stay.
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HIGGINS.
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I must.
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I've a job for you.
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A phonetic job.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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No use, dear.
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I'm sorry; but I can't get round your vowels; and though I like to get pretty postcards in your patent shorthand, I always have to read the copies in ordinary writing you so thoughtfully send me.
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HIGGINS.
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Well, this isn't a phonetic job.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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You said it was.
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HIGGINS.
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Not your part of it.
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I've picked up a girl.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Does that mean that some girl has picked you up?
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HIGGINS.
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Not at all.
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I don't mean a love affair.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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What a pity!
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HIGGINS.
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Why?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Well, you never fall in love with anyone under forty-five.
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When will you discover that there are some rather nice-looking young women about?
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HIGGINS.
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Oh, I can't be bothered with young women.
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My idea of a loveable woman is something as like you as possible.
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I shall never get into the way of seriously liking young women: some habits lie too deep to be changed.
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[Rising abruptly and walking about, jingling his money and his keys in his trouser pockets] Besides, they're all idiots.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Do you know what you would do if you really loved me, Henry?
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HIGGINS.
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Oh bother!
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What?
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Marry, I suppose?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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No.
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Stop fidgeting and take your hands out of your pockets.
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[With a gesture of despair, he obeys and sits down again].
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That's a good boy.
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Now tell me about the girl.
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HIGGINS.
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She's coming to see you.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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I don't remember asking her.
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HIGGINS.
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You didn't.
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I asked her.
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If you'd known her you wouldn't have asked her.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Indeed!
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Why?
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HIGGINS.
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Well, it's like this.
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She's a common flower girl.
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I picked her off the kerbstone.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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And invited her to my at-home!
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HIGGINS [rising and coming to her to coax her] Oh, that'll be all right.
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I've taught her to speak properly; and she has strict orders as to her behavior.
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She's to keep to two subjects: the weather and everybody's health—Fine day and How do you do, you know—and not to let herself go on things in general.
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That will be safe.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Safe!
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To talk about our health!
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about our insides!
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perhaps about our outsides!
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How could you be so silly, Henry?
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HIGGINS [impatiently] Well, she must talk about something.
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[He controls himself and sits down again].
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Oh, she'll be all right: don't you fuss.
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Pickering is in it with me.
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I've a sort of bet on that I'll pass her off as a duchess in six months.
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I started on her some months ago; and she's getting on like a house on fire.
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I shall win my bet.
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She has a quick ear; and she's been easier to teach than my middle-class pupils because she's had to learn a complete new language.
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She talks English almost as you talk French.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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That's satisfactory, at all events.
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HIGGINS.
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Well, it is and it isn't.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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unit 127

What does that mean?
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HIGGINS.
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You see, I've got her pronunciation all right; but you have to consider not only how a girl pronounces, but what she pronounces; and that's where— They are interrupted by the parlor-maid, announcing guests.
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THE PARLOR-MAID.
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Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill.
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[She withdraws].
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HIGGINS.
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Oh Lord!
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[He rises; snatches his hat from the table; and makes for the door; but before he reaches it his mother introduces him].
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Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill are the mother and daughter who sheltered from the rain in Covent Garden.
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The mother is well bred, quiet, and has the habitual anxiety of straitened means.
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The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] How do you do?
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[They shake hands].
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MISS EYNSFORD HILL.
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How d'you do?
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[She shakes].
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MRS. HIGGINS [introducing] My son Henry.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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Your celebrated son!
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I have so longed to meet you, Professor Higgins.
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HIGGINS [glumly, making no movement in her direction] Delighted.
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[He backs against the piano and bows brusquely].
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Miss EYNSFORD HILL [going to him with confident familiarity] How do you do?
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HIGGINS [staring at her] I've seen you before somewhere.
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I haven't the ghost of a notion where; but I've heard your voice.
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[Drearily] It doesn't matter.
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You'd better sit down.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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I'm sorry to say that my celebrated son has no manners.
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You mustn't mind him.
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MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] I don't.
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[She sits in the Elizabethan chair].
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [a little bewildered] Not at all.
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[She sits on the ottoman between her daughter and Mrs. Higgins, who has turned her chair away from the writing-table].
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HIGGINS.
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Oh, have I been rude?
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I didn't mean to be.
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unit 165

[He goes to the central window, through which, with his back to the company, he contemplates the river and the flowers in Battersea Park on the opposite bank as if they were a frozen dessert.]
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The parlor-maid returns, ushering in Pickering.
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THE PARLOR-MAID.
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Colonel Pickering [She withdraws].
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PICKERING.
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How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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So glad you've come.
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Do you know Mrs. Eynsford Hill—Miss Eynsford Hill?
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[Exchange of bows.
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The Colonel brings the Chippendale chair a little forward between Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Higgins, and sits down].
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PICKERING.
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Has Henry told you what we've come for?
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HIGGINS [over his shoulder] We were interrupted: damn it!
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Oh Henry, Henry, really!
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [half rising] Are we in the way?
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MRS. HIGGINS [rising and making her sit down again] No, no.
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You couldn't have come more fortunately: we want you to meet a friend of ours.
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HIGGINS [turning hopefully] Yes, by George!
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We want two or three people.
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You'll do as well as anybody else.
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The parlor-maid returns, ushering Freddy.
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THE PARLOR-MAID.
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Mr. Eynsford Hill.
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HIGGINS [almost audibly, past endurance] God of Heaven!
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another of them.
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FREDDY [shaking hands with Mrs. Higgins] Ahdedo?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Very good of you to come.
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[Introducing] Colonel Pickering.
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FREDDY [bowing] Ahdedo?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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I don't think you know my son, Professor Higgins.
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FREDDY [going to Higgins] Ahdedo?
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HIGGINS [looking at him much as if he were a pickpocket] I'll take my oath I've met you before somewhere.
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Where was it?
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FREDDY.
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I don't think so.
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HIGGINS [resignedly] It don't matter, anyhow.
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Sit down.
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He shakes Freddy's hand, and almost slings him on the ottoman with his face to the windows; then comes round to the other side of it.
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HIGGINS.
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Well, here we are, anyhow!
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[He sits down on the ottoman next Mrs. Eynsford Hill, on her left.]
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And now, what the devil are we going to talk about until Eliza comes?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Henry: you are the life and soul of the Royal Society's soirees; but really you're rather trying on more commonplace occasions.
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HIGGINS.
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unit 214

Am I?
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Very sorry.
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[Beaming suddenly] I suppose I am, you know.
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[Uproariously] Ha, ha!
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MISS EYNSFORD HILL [who considers Higgins quite eligible matrimonially] I sympathize.
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I haven't any small talk.
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If people would only be frank and say what they really think!
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HIGGINS [relapsing into gloom] Lord forbid!
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [taking up her daughter's cue] But why?
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HIGGINS.
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What they think they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows; but what they really think would break up the whole show.
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Do you suppose it would be really agreeable if I were to come out now with what I really think?
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MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] Is it so very cynical?
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HIGGINS.
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Cynical!
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Who the dickens said it was cynical?
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I mean it wouldn't be decent.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [seriously] Oh!
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I'm sure you don't mean that, Mr. Higgins.
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HIGGINS.
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You see, we're all savages, more or less.
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We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?
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[To Miss Hill] What do you know of poetry?
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[To Mrs. Hill] What do you know of science?
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[Indicating Freddy] What does he know of art or science or anything else?
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What the devil do you imagine I know of philosophy?
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MRS. HIGGINS [warningly] Or of manners, Henry?
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THE PARLOR-MAID [opening the door] Miss Doolittle.
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[She withdraws].
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HIGGINS [rising hastily and running to Mrs. Higgins] Here she is, mother.
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[He stands on tiptoe and makes signs over his mother's head to Eliza to indicate to her which lady is her hostess].
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Eliza, who is exquisitely dressed, produces an impression of such remarkable distinction and beauty as she enters that they all rise, quite flustered.
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Guided by Higgins's signals, she comes to Mrs. Higgins with studied grace.
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LIZA [speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone] How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?
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[She gasps slightly in making sure of the H in Higgins, but is quite successful].
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Mr. Higgins told me I might come.
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MRS. HIGGINS [cordially] Quite right: I'm very glad indeed to see you.
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PICKERING.
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How do you do, Miss Doolittle?
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LIZA [shaking hands with him] Colonel Pickering, is it not?
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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I feel sure we have met before, Miss Doolittle.
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I remember your eyes.
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LIZA.
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How do you do?
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[She sits down on the ottoman gracefully in the place just left vacant by Higgins].
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My daughter Clara.
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LIZA.
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How do you do?
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CLARA [impulsively] How do you do?
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[She sits down on the ottoman beside Eliza, devouring her with her eyes].
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FREDDY [coming to their side of the ottoman] I've certainly had the pleasure.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My son Freddy.
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LIZA.
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How do you do?
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Freddy bows and sits down in the Elizabethan chair, infatuated.
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HIGGINS [suddenly] By George, yes: it all comes back to me!
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[They stare at him].
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Covent Garden!
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[Lamentably] What a damned thing!
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Henry, please!
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unit 276

[He is about to sit on the edge of the table].
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Don't sit on my writing-table: you'll break it.
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HIGGINS [sulkily] Sorry.
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He goes to the divan, stumbling into the fender and over the fire-irons on his way; extricating himself with muttered imprecations; and finishing his disastrous journey by throwing himself so impatiently on the divan that he almost breaks it.
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Mrs. Higgins looks at him, but controls herself and says nothing.
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A long and painful pause ensues.
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MRS. HIGGINS [at last, conversationally] Will it rain, do you think?
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LIZA.
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The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction.
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There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.
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FREDDY.
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Ha!
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ha!
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how awfully funny!
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LIZA.
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What is wrong with that, young man?
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I bet I got it right.
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FREDDY.
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Killing!
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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I'm sure I hope it won't turn cold.
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There's so much influenza about.
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It runs right through our whole family regularly every spring.
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LIZA [darkly] My aunt died of influenza: so they said.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [clicks her tongue sympathetically]!!!
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LIZA [in the same tragic tone] But it's my belief they done the old woman in.
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MRS. HIGGINS [puzzled] Done her in?
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LIZA.
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Y-e-e-e-es, Lord love you!
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Why should she die of influenza?
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She come through diphtheria right enough the year before.
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I saw her with my own eyes.
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Fairly blue with it, she was.
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They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [startled] Dear me!
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LIZA [piling up the indictment] What call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza?
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What become of her new straw hat that should have come to me?
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Somebody pinched it; and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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What does doing her in mean?
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HIGGINS [hastily] Oh, that's the new small talk.
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To do a person in means to kill them.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Eliza, horrified] You surely don't believe that your aunt was killed?
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LIZA.
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Do I not!
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Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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But it can't have been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat like that.
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It might have killed her.
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LIZA.
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Not her.
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Gin was mother's milk to her.
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Besides, he'd poured so much down his own throat that he knew the good of it.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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Do you mean that he drank?
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LIZA.
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Drank!
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My word!
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Something chronic.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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How dreadful for you!
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LIZA.
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Not a bit.
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It never did him no harm what I could see.
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But then he did not keep it up regular.
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[Cheerfully] On the burst, as you might say, from time to time.
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And always more agreeable when he had a drop in.
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When he was out of work, my mother used to give him fourpence and tell him to go out and not come back until he'd drunk himself cheerful and loving-like.
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There's lots of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with.
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[Now quite at her ease] You see, it's like this.
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If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he's sober; and then it makes him low-spirited.
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A drop of booze just takes that off and makes him happy.
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[To Freddy, who is in convulsions of suppressed laughter] Here!
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what are you sniggering at?
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FREDDY.
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The new small talk.
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You do it so awfully well.
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LIZA.
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If I was doing it proper, what was you laughing at?
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[To Higgins] Have I said anything I oughtn't?
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MRS. HIGGINS [interposing] Not at all, Miss Doolittle.
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LIZA.
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Well, that's a mercy, anyhow.
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[Expansively] What I always say is— HIGGINS [rising and looking at his watch] Ahem!
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LIZA [looking round at him; taking the hint; and rising] Well: I must go.
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[They all rise.
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Freddy goes to the door].
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So pleased to have met you.
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Good-bye.
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unit 365

[She shakes hands with Mrs. Higgins].
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Good-bye.
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LIZA.
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Good-bye, Colonel Pickering.
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PICKERING.
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unit 371

Good-bye, Miss Doolittle.
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[They shake hands].
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LIZA [nodding to the others] Good-bye, all.
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FREDDY [opening the door for her] Are you walking across the Park, Miss Doolittle?
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If so— LIZA.
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Walk!
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Not bloody likely.
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unit 378

[Sensation].
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I am going in a taxi.
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unit 380

[She goes out].
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Pickering gasps and sits down.
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Freddy goes out on the balcony to catch another glimpse of Eliza.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [suffering from shock] Well, I really can't get used to the new ways.
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CLARA [throwing herself discontentedly into the Elizabethan chair].
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Oh, it's all right, mamma, quite right.
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People will think we never go anywhere or see anybody if you are so old-fashioned.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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I daresay I am very old-fashioned; but I do hope you won't begin using that expression, Clara.
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I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unladylike.
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But this last is really too much.
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Don't you think so, Colonel Pickering?
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PICKERING.
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Don't ask me.
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I've been away in India for several years; and manners have changed so much that I sometimes don't know whether I'm at a respectable dinner-table or in a ship's forecastle.
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CLARA.
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It's all a matter of habit.
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There's no right or wrong in it.
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Nobody means anything by it.
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And it's so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty.
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I find the new small talk delightful and quite innocent.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [rising] Well, after that, I think it's time for us to go.
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Pickering and Higgins rise.
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CLARA [rising] Oh yes: we have three at homes to go to still.
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Good-bye, Mrs. Higgins.
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Good-bye, Colonel Pickering.
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Good-bye, Professor Higgins.
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HIGGINS [coming grimly at her from the divan, and accompanying her to the door] Good-bye.
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Be sure you try on that small talk at the three at-homes.
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unit 409

Don't be nervous about it.
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Pitch it in strong.
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CLARA [all smiles] I will.
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Good-bye.
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Such nonsense, all this early Victorian prudery!
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HIGGINS [tempting her] Such damned nonsense!
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CLARA.
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Such bloody nonsense!
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [convulsively] Clara!
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CLARA.
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Ha!
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ha!
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[She goes out radiant, conscious of being thoroughly up to date, and is heard descending the stairs in a stream of silvery laughter].
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FREDDY [to the heavens at large] Well, I ask you [He gives it up, and comes to Mrs. Higgins].
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Good-bye.
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MRS. HIGGINS [shaking hands] Good-bye.
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Would you like to meet Miss Doolittle again?
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FREDDY [eagerly] Yes, I should, most awfully.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Well, you know my days.
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FREDDY.
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Yes.
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Thanks awfully.
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Good-bye.
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[He goes out].
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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Good-bye, Mr. Higgins.
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HIGGINS.
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Good-bye.
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Good-bye.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Pickering] It's no use.
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I shall never be able to bring myself to use that word.
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PICKERING.
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Don't.
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It's not compulsory, you know.
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You'll get on quite well without it.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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Only, Clara is so down on me if I am not positively reeking with the latest slang.
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Good-bye.
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PICKERING.
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Good-bye [They shake hands].
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] You mustn't mind Clara.
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[Pickering, catching from her lowered tone that this is not meant for him to hear, discreetly joins Higgins at the window].
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We're so poor!
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and she gets so few parties, poor child!
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unit 454

She doesn't quite know.
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[Mrs. Higgins, seeing that her eyes are moist, takes her hand sympathetically and goes with her to the door].
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unit 456

But the boy is nice.
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Don't you think so?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Oh, quite nice.
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I shall always be delighted to see him.
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL.
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Thank you, dear.
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Good-bye.
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[She goes out].
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HIGGINS [eagerly] Well?
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Is Eliza presentable [he swoops on his mother and drags her to the ottoman, where she sits down in Eliza's place with her son on her left]?
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Pickering returns to his chair on her right.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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You silly boy, of course she's not presentable.
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She's a triumph of your art and of her dressmaker's; but if you suppose for a moment that she doesn't give herself away in every sentence she utters, you must be perfectly cracked about her.
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PICKERING.
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But don't you think something might be done?
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I mean something to eliminate the sanguinary element from her conversation.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Not as long as she is in Henry's hands.
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HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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No, dearest: it would be quite proper—say on a canal barge; but it would not be proper for her at a garden party.
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HIGGINS [deeply injured] Well I must say— PICKERING [interrupting him] Come, Higgins: you must learn to know yourself.
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I haven't heard such language as yours since we used to review the volunteers in Hyde Park twenty years ago.
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HIGGINS [sulkily] Oh, well, if you say so, I suppose I don't always talk like a bishop.
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MRS. HIGGINS [quieting Henry with a touch] Colonel Pickering: will you tell me what is the exact state of things in Wimpole Street?
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PICKERING [cheerfully: as if this completely changed the subject] Well, I have come to live there with Henry.
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We work together at my Indian Dialects; and we think it more convenient— MRS. HIGGINS.
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Quite so.
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I know all about that: it's an excellent arrangement.
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But where does this girl live?
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HIGGINS.
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With us, of course.
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Where would she live?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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But on what terms?
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Is she a servant?
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If not, what is she?
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PICKERING [slowly] I think I know what you mean, Mrs. Higgins.
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HIGGINS.
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Well, dash me if I do!
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I've had to work at the girl every day for months to get her to her present pitch.
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Besides, she's useful.
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She knows where my things are, and remembers my appointments and so forth.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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How does your housekeeper get on with her?
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HIGGINS.
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Mrs. Pearce?
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Oh, she's jolly glad to get so much taken off her hands; for before Eliza came, she had to have to find things and remind me of my appointments.
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But she's got some silly bee in her bonnet about Eliza.
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She keeps saying "You don't think, sir": doesn't she, Pick?
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PICKERING.
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Yes: that's the formula.
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"You don't think, sir."
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That's the end of every conversation about Eliza.
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HIGGINS.
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As if I ever stop thinking about the girl and her confounded vowels and consonants.
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I'm worn out, thinking about her, and watching her lips and her teeth and her tongue, not to mention her soul, which is the quaintest of the lot.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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You certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll.
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HIGGINS.
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Playing!
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The hardest job I ever tackled: make no mistake about that, mother.
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But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her.
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It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.
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PICKERING [drawing his chair closer to Mrs. Higgins and bending over to her eagerly] Yes: it's enormously interesting.
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I assure you, Mrs. Higgins, we take Eliza very seriously.
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Every week—every day almost—there is some new change.
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[Closer again] We keep records of every stage—dozens of gramophone disks and photographs— HIGGINS [assailing her at the other ear] Yes, by George: it's the most absorbing experiment I ever tackled.
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She regularly fills our lives up; doesn't she, Pick?
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PICKERING.
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We're always talking Eliza.
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HIGGINS.
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Teaching Eliza.
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PICKERING.
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Dressing Eliza.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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What!
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HIGGINS.
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Inventing new Elizas.
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Higgins and Pickering, speaking together: HIGGINS.
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You know, she has the most extraordinary quickness of ear: PICKERING.
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I assure you, my dear Mrs. Higgins, that girl HIGGINS.
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just like a parrot.
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I've tried her with every PICKERING.
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is a genius.
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She can play the piano quite beautifully HIGGINS.
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possible sort of sound that a human being can make— PICKERING.
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We have taken her to classical concerts and to music HIGGINS.
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Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot PICKERING.
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halls; and it's all the same to her: she plays everything HIGGINS.
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clicks, things it took me years to get hold of; and PICKERING.
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she hears right off when she comes home, whether it's HIGGINS.
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she picks them up like a shot, right away, as if she had PICKERING.
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Beethoven and Brahms or Lehar and Lionel Morickton; HIGGINS.
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been at it all her life.
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PICKERING.
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though six months ago, she'd never as much as touched a piano.
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MRS. HIGGINS [putting her fingers in her ears, as they are by this time shouting one another down with an intolerable noise] Sh—sh—sh—sh!
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[They stop].
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PICKERING.
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I beg your pardon.
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[He draws his chair back apologetically].
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HIGGINS.
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Sorry.
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When Pickering starts shouting nobody can get a word in edgeways.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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Be quiet, Henry.
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Colonel Pickering: don't you realize that when Eliza walked into Wimpole Street, something walked in with her?
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PICKERING.
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Her father did.
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But Henry soon got rid of him.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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It would have been more to the point if her mother had.
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But as her mother didn't something else did.
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PICKERING.
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But what?
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MRS. HIGGINS [unconsciously dating herself by the word] A problem.
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PICKERING.
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Oh, I see.
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The problem of how to pass her off as a lady.
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HIGGINS.
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I'll solve that problem.
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I've half solved it already.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards.
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HIGGINS.
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I don't see anything in that.
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She can go her own way, with all the advantages I have given her.
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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The advantages of that poor woman who was here just now!
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The manners and habits that disqualify a fine lady from earning her own living without giving her a fine lady's income!
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Is that what you mean?
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PICKERING [indulgently, being rather bored] Oh, that will be all right, Mrs. Higgins.
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[He rises to go].
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HIGGINS [rising also] We'll find her some light employment.
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PICKERING.
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She's happy enough.
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Don't you worry about her.
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Good-bye.
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[He shakes hands as if he were consoling a frightened child, and makes for the door].
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HIGGINS.
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Anyhow, there's no good bothering now.
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The thing's done.
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Good-bye, mother.
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[He kisses her, and follows Pickering].
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PICKERING [turning for a final consolation] There are plenty of openings.
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We'll do what's right.
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Good-bye.
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HIGGINS [to Pickering as they go out together] Let's take her to the Shakespear exhibition at Earls Court.
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PICKERING.
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Yes: let's.
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Her remarks will be delicious.
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HIGGINS.
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She'll mimic all the people for us when we get home.
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PICKERING.
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Ripping.
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[Both are heard laughing as they go downstairs].
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MRS. HIGGINS [rises with an impatient bounce, and returns to her work at the writing-table.
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She sweeps a litter of disarranged papers out of her way; snatches a sheet of paper from her stationery case; and tries resolutely to write.
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At the third line she gives it up; flings down her pen; grips the table angrily and exclaims] Oh, men!
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men!!
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men!!
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!
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ACT III
It is Mrs. Higgins's at-home day. Nobody has yet arrived. Her drawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows looking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in an older house of the same pretension. The windows are open, giving access to a balcony with flowers in pots. If you stand with your face to the windows, you have the fireplace on your left and the door in the right-hand wall close to the corner nearest the windows.
Mrs. Higgins was brought up on Morris and Burne Jones; and her room, which is very unlike her son's room in Wimpole Street, is not crowded with furniture and little tables and nicknacks. In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things. A few good oil-paintings from the exhibitions in the Grosvenor Gallery thirty years ago (the Burne Jones, not the Whistler side of them) are on the walls. The only landscape is a Cecil Lawson on the scale of a Rubens. There is a portrait of Mrs. Higgins as she was when she defied fashion in her youth in one of the beautiful Rossettian costumes which, when caricatured by people who did not understand, led to the absurdities of popular estheticism in the eighteen-seventies.
In the corner diagonally opposite the door Mrs. Higgins, now over sixty and long past taking the trouble to dress out of the fashion, sits writing at an elegantly simple writing-table with a bell button within reach of her hand. There is a Chippendale chair further back in the room between her and the window nearest her side. At the other side of the room, further forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones. On the same side a piano in a decorated case. The corner between the fireplace and the window is occupied by a divan cushioned in Morris chintz.
It is between four and five in the afternoon.
The door is opened violently; and Higgins enters with his hat on.
MRS. HIGGINS [dismayed] Henry! [scolding him] What are you doing here to-day? It is my at home day: you promised not to come. [As he bends to kiss her, she takes his hat off, and presents it to him].
HIGGINS. Oh bother! [He throws the hat down on the table].
MRS. HIGGINS. Go home at once.
HIGGINS [kissing her] I know, mother. I came on purpose.
MRS. HIGGINS. But you mustn't. I'm serious, Henry. You offend all my friends: they stop coming whenever they meet you.
HIGGINS. Nonsense! I know I have no small talk; but people don't mind. [He sits on the settee].
MRS. HIGGINS. Oh! don't they? Small talk indeed! What about your large talk? Really, dear, you mustn't stay.
HIGGINS. I must. I've a job for you. A phonetic job.
MRS. HIGGINS. No use, dear. I'm sorry; but I can't get round your vowels; and though I like to get pretty postcards in your patent shorthand, I always have to read the copies in ordinary writing you so thoughtfully send me.
HIGGINS. Well, this isn't a phonetic job.
MRS. HIGGINS. You said it was.
HIGGINS. Not your part of it. I've picked up a girl.
MRS. HIGGINS. Does that mean that some girl has picked you up?
HIGGINS. Not at all. I don't mean a love affair.
MRS. HIGGINS. What a pity!
HIGGINS. Why?
MRS. HIGGINS. Well, you never fall in love with anyone under forty-five. When will you discover that there are some rather nice-looking young women about?
HIGGINS. Oh, I can't be bothered with young women. My idea of a loveable woman is something as like you as possible. I shall never get into the way of seriously liking young women: some habits lie too deep to be changed. [Rising abruptly and walking about, jingling his money and his keys in his trouser pockets] Besides, they're all idiots.
MRS. HIGGINS. Do you know what you would do if you really loved me, Henry?
HIGGINS. Oh bother! What? Marry, I suppose?
MRS. HIGGINS. No. Stop fidgeting and take your hands out of your pockets. [With a gesture of despair, he obeys and sits down again]. That's a good boy. Now tell me about the girl.
HIGGINS. She's coming to see you.
MRS. HIGGINS. I don't remember asking her.
HIGGINS. You didn't. I asked her. If you'd known her you wouldn't have asked her.
MRS. HIGGINS. Indeed! Why?
HIGGINS. Well, it's like this. She's a common flower girl. I picked her off the kerbstone.
MRS. HIGGINS. And invited her to my at-home!
HIGGINS [rising and coming to her to coax her] Oh, that'll be all right. I've taught her to speak properly; and she has strict orders as to her behavior. She's to keep to two subjects: the weather and everybody's health—Fine day and How do you do, you know—and not to let herself go on things in general. That will be safe.
MRS. HIGGINS. Safe! To talk about our health! about our insides! perhaps about our outsides! How could you be so silly, Henry?
HIGGINS [impatiently] Well, she must talk about something. [He controls himself and sits down again]. Oh, she'll be all right: don't you fuss. Pickering is in it with me. I've a sort of bet on that I'll pass her off as a duchess in six months. I started on her some months ago; and she's getting on like a house on fire. I shall win my bet. She has a quick ear; and she's been easier to teach than my middle-class pupils because she's had to learn a complete new language. She talks English almost as you talk French.
MRS. HIGGINS. That's satisfactory, at all events.
HIGGINS. Well, it is and it isn't.
MRS. HIGGINS. What does that mean?
HIGGINS. You see, I've got her pronunciation all right; but you have to consider not only how a girl pronounces, but what she pronounces; and that's where—
They are interrupted by the parlor-maid, announcing guests.
THE PARLOR-MAID. Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill. [She withdraws].
HIGGINS. Oh Lord! [He rises; snatches his hat from the table; and makes for the door; but before he reaches it his mother introduces him].
Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill are the mother and daughter who sheltered from the rain in Covent Garden. The mother is well bred, quiet, and has the habitual anxiety of straitened means. The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] How do you do? [They shake hands].
MISS EYNSFORD HILL. How d'you do? [She shakes].
MRS. HIGGINS [introducing] My son Henry.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Your celebrated son! I have so longed to meet you, Professor Higgins.
HIGGINS [glumly, making no movement in her direction] Delighted. [He backs against the piano and bows brusquely].
Miss EYNSFORD HILL [going to him with confident familiarity] How do you do?
HIGGINS [staring at her] I've seen you before somewhere. I haven't the ghost of a notion where; but I've heard your voice. [Drearily] It doesn't matter. You'd better sit down.
MRS. HIGGINS. I'm sorry to say that my celebrated son has no manners. You mustn't mind him.
MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] I don't. [She sits in the Elizabethan chair].
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [a little bewildered] Not at all. [She sits on the ottoman between her daughter and Mrs. Higgins, who has turned her chair away from the writing-table].
HIGGINS. Oh, have I been rude? I didn't mean to be. [He goes to the central window, through which, with his back to the company, he contemplates the river and the flowers in Battersea Park on the opposite bank as if they were a frozen dessert.]
The parlor-maid returns, ushering in Pickering.
THE PARLOR-MAID. Colonel Pickering [She withdraws].
PICKERING. How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?
MRS. HIGGINS. So glad you've come. Do you know Mrs. Eynsford Hill—Miss Eynsford Hill? [Exchange of bows. The Colonel brings the Chippendale chair a little forward between Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Higgins, and sits down].
PICKERING. Has Henry told you what we've come for?
HIGGINS [over his shoulder] We were interrupted: damn it!
MRS. HIGGINS. Oh Henry, Henry, really!
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [half rising] Are we in the way?
MRS. HIGGINS [rising and making her sit down again] No, no. You couldn't have come more fortunately: we want you to meet a friend of ours.
HIGGINS [turning hopefully] Yes, by George! We want two or three people. You'll do as well as anybody else.
The parlor-maid returns, ushering Freddy.
THE PARLOR-MAID. Mr. Eynsford Hill.
HIGGINS [almost audibly, past endurance] God of Heaven! another of them.
FREDDY [shaking hands with Mrs. Higgins] Ahdedo?
MRS. HIGGINS. Very good of you to come. [Introducing] Colonel Pickering.
FREDDY [bowing] Ahdedo?
MRS. HIGGINS. I don't think you know my son, Professor Higgins.
FREDDY [going to Higgins] Ahdedo?
HIGGINS [looking at him much as if he were a pickpocket] I'll take my oath I've met you before somewhere. Where was it?
FREDDY. I don't think so.
HIGGINS [resignedly] It don't matter, anyhow. Sit down. He shakes Freddy's hand, and almost slings him on the ottoman with his face to the windows; then comes round to the other side of it.
HIGGINS. Well, here we are, anyhow! [He sits down on the ottoman next Mrs. Eynsford Hill, on her left.] And now, what the devil are we going to talk about until Eliza comes?
MRS. HIGGINS. Henry: you are the life and soul of the Royal Society's soirees; but really you're rather trying on more commonplace occasions.
HIGGINS. Am I? Very sorry. [Beaming suddenly] I suppose I am, you know. [Uproariously] Ha, ha!
MISS EYNSFORD HILL [who considers Higgins quite eligible matrimonially] I sympathize. I haven't any small talk. If people would only be frank and say what they really think!
HIGGINS [relapsing into gloom] Lord forbid!
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [taking up her daughter's cue] But why?
HIGGINS. What they think they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows; but what they really think would break up the whole show. Do you suppose it would be really agreeable if I were to come out now with what I really think?
MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] Is it so very cynical?
HIGGINS. Cynical! Who the dickens said it was cynical? I mean it wouldn't be decent.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [seriously] Oh! I'm sure you don't mean that, Mr. Higgins.
HIGGINS. You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names? [To Miss Hill] What do you know of poetry? [To Mrs. Hill] What do you know of science? [Indicating Freddy] What does he know of art or science or anything else? What the devil do you imagine I know of philosophy?
MRS. HIGGINS [warningly] Or of manners, Henry?
THE PARLOR-MAID [opening the door] Miss Doolittle. [She withdraws].
HIGGINS [rising hastily and running to Mrs. Higgins] Here she is, mother. [He stands on tiptoe and makes signs over his mother's head to Eliza to indicate to her which lady is her hostess].
Eliza, who is exquisitely dressed, produces an impression of such remarkable distinction and beauty as she enters that they all rise, quite flustered. Guided by Higgins's signals, she comes to Mrs. Higgins with studied grace.
LIZA [speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone] How do you do, Mrs. Higgins? [She gasps slightly in making sure of the H in Higgins, but is quite successful]. Mr. Higgins told me I might come.
MRS. HIGGINS [cordially] Quite right: I'm very glad indeed to see you.
PICKERING. How do you do, Miss Doolittle?
LIZA [shaking hands with him] Colonel Pickering, is it not?
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. I feel sure we have met before, Miss Doolittle. I remember your eyes.
LIZA. How do you do? [She sits down on the ottoman gracefully in the place just left vacant by Higgins].
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My daughter Clara.
LIZA. How do you do?
CLARA [impulsively] How do you do? [She sits down on the ottoman beside Eliza, devouring her with her eyes].
FREDDY [coming to their side of the ottoman] I've certainly had the pleasure.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My son Freddy.
LIZA. How do you do?
Freddy bows and sits down in the Elizabethan chair, infatuated.
HIGGINS [suddenly] By George, yes: it all comes back to me! [They stare at him]. Covent Garden! [Lamentably] What a damned thing!
MRS. HIGGINS. Henry, please! [He is about to sit on the edge of the table]. Don't sit on my writing-table: you'll break it.
HIGGINS [sulkily] Sorry.
He goes to the divan, stumbling into the fender and over the fire-irons on his way; extricating himself with muttered imprecations; and finishing his disastrous journey by throwing himself so impatiently on the divan that he almost breaks it. Mrs. Higgins looks at him, but controls herself and says nothing.
A long and painful pause ensues.
MRS. HIGGINS [at last, conversationally] Will it rain, do you think?
LIZA. The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.
FREDDY. Ha! ha! how awfully funny!
LIZA. What is wrong with that, young man? I bet I got it right.
FREDDY. Killing!
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. I'm sure I hope it won't turn cold. There's so much influenza about. It runs right through our whole family regularly every spring.
LIZA [darkly] My aunt died of influenza: so they said.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [clicks her tongue sympathetically]!!!
LIZA [in the same tragic tone] But it's my belief they done the old woman in.
MRS. HIGGINS [puzzled] Done her in?
LIZA. Y-e-e-e-es, Lord love you! Why should she die of influenza? She come through diphtheria right enough the year before. I saw her with my own eyes. Fairly blue with it, she was. They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [startled] Dear me!
LIZA [piling up the indictment] What call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? What become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it; and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. What does doing her in mean?
HIGGINS [hastily] Oh, that's the new small talk. To do a person in means to kill them.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Eliza, horrified] You surely don't believe that your aunt was killed?
LIZA. Do I not! Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. But it can't have been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat like that. It might have killed her.
LIZA. Not her. Gin was mother's milk to her. Besides, he'd poured so much down his own throat that he knew the good of it.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Do you mean that he drank?
LIZA. Drank! My word! Something chronic.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. How dreadful for you!
LIZA. Not a bit. It never did him no harm what I could see. But then he did not keep it up regular. [Cheerfully] On the burst, as you might say, from time to time. And always more agreeable when he had a drop in. When he was out of work, my mother used to give him fourpence and tell him to go out and not come back until he'd drunk himself cheerful and loving-like. There's lots of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with. [Now quite at her ease] You see, it's like this. If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he's sober; and then it makes him low-spirited. A drop of booze just takes that off and makes him happy. [To Freddy, who is in convulsions of suppressed laughter] Here! what are you sniggering at?
FREDDY. The new small talk. You do it so awfully well.
LIZA. If I was doing it proper, what was you laughing at? [To Higgins] Have I said anything I oughtn't?
MRS. HIGGINS [interposing] Not at all, Miss Doolittle.
LIZA. Well, that's a mercy, anyhow. [Expansively] What I always say is—
HIGGINS [rising and looking at his watch] Ahem!
LIZA [looking round at him; taking the hint; and rising] Well: I must go. [They all rise. Freddy goes to the door]. So pleased to have met you. Good-bye. [She shakes hands with Mrs. Higgins].
MRS. HIGGINS. Good-bye.
LIZA. Good-bye, Colonel Pickering.
PICKERING. Good-bye, Miss Doolittle. [They shake hands].
LIZA [nodding to the others] Good-bye, all.
FREDDY [opening the door for her] Are you walking across the Park, Miss Doolittle? If so—
LIZA. Walk! Not bloody likely. [Sensation]. I am going in a taxi. [She goes out].
Pickering gasps and sits down. Freddy goes out on the balcony to catch another glimpse of Eliza.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [suffering from shock] Well, I really can't get used to the new ways.
CLARA [throwing herself discontentedly into the Elizabethan chair]. Oh, it's all right, mamma, quite right. People will think we never go anywhere or see anybody if you are so old-fashioned.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. I daresay I am very old-fashioned; but I do hope you won't begin using that expression, Clara. I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unladylike. But this last is really too much. Don't you think so, Colonel Pickering?
PICKERING. Don't ask me. I've been away in India for several years; and manners have changed so much that I sometimes don't know whether I'm at a respectable dinner-table or in a ship's forecastle.
CLARA. It's all a matter of habit. There's no right or wrong in it. Nobody means anything by it. And it's so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty. I find the new small talk delightful and quite innocent.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [rising] Well, after that, I think it's time for us to go.
Pickering and Higgins rise.
CLARA [rising] Oh yes: we have three at homes to go to still. Good-bye, Mrs. Higgins. Good-bye, Colonel Pickering. Good-bye, Professor Higgins.
HIGGINS [coming grimly at her from the divan, and accompanying her to the door] Good-bye. Be sure you try on that small talk at the three at-homes. Don't be nervous about it. Pitch it in strong.
CLARA [all smiles] I will. Good-bye. Such nonsense, all this early Victorian prudery!
HIGGINS [tempting her] Such damned nonsense!
CLARA. Such bloody nonsense!
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [convulsively] Clara!
CLARA. Ha! ha! [She goes out radiant, conscious of being thoroughly up to date, and is heard descending the stairs in a stream of silvery laughter].
FREDDY [to the heavens at large] Well, I ask you [He gives it up, and comes to Mrs. Higgins]. Good-bye.
MRS. HIGGINS [shaking hands] Good-bye. Would you like to meet Miss Doolittle again?
FREDDY [eagerly] Yes, I should, most awfully.
MRS. HIGGINS. Well, you know my days.
FREDDY. Yes. Thanks awfully. Good-bye. [He goes out].
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Good-bye, Mr. Higgins.
HIGGINS. Good-bye. Good-bye.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Pickering] It's no use. I shall never be able to bring myself to use that word.
PICKERING. Don't. It's not compulsory, you know. You'll get on quite well without it.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Only, Clara is so down on me if I am not positively reeking with the latest slang. Good-bye.
PICKERING. Good-bye [They shake hands].
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] You mustn't mind Clara. [Pickering, catching from her lowered tone that this is not meant for him to hear, discreetly joins Higgins at the window]. We're so poor! and she gets so few parties, poor child! She doesn't quite know. [Mrs. Higgins, seeing that her eyes are moist, takes her hand sympathetically and goes with her to the door]. But the boy is nice. Don't you think so?
MRS. HIGGINS. Oh, quite nice. I shall always be delighted to see him.
MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. Thank you, dear. Good-bye. [She goes out].
HIGGINS [eagerly] Well? Is Eliza presentable [he swoops on his mother and drags her to the ottoman, where she sits down in Eliza's place with her son on her left]?
Pickering returns to his chair on her right.
MRS. HIGGINS. You silly boy, of course she's not presentable. She's a triumph of your art and of her dressmaker's; but if you suppose for a moment that she doesn't give herself away in every sentence she utters, you must be perfectly cracked about her.
PICKERING. But don't you think something might be done? I mean something to eliminate the sanguinary element from her conversation.
MRS. HIGGINS. Not as long as she is in Henry's hands.
HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?
MRS. HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper—say on a canal barge; but it would not be proper for her at a garden party.
HIGGINS [deeply injured] Well I must say—
PICKERING [interrupting him] Come, Higgins: you must learn to know yourself. I haven't heard such language as yours since we used to review the volunteers in Hyde Park twenty years ago.
HIGGINS [sulkily] Oh, well, if you say so, I suppose I don't always talk like a bishop.
MRS. HIGGINS [quieting Henry with a touch] Colonel Pickering: will you tell me what is the exact state of things in Wimpole Street?
PICKERING [cheerfully: as if this completely changed the subject] Well, I have come to live there with Henry. We work together at my Indian Dialects; and we think it more convenient—
MRS. HIGGINS. Quite so. I know all about that: it's an excellent arrangement. But where does this girl live?
HIGGINS. With us, of course. Where would she live?
MRS. HIGGINS. But on what terms? Is she a servant? If not, what is she?
PICKERING [slowly] I think I know what you mean, Mrs. Higgins.
HIGGINS. Well, dash me if I do! I've had to work at the girl every day for months to get her to her present pitch. Besides, she's useful. She knows where my things are, and remembers my appointments and so forth.
MRS. HIGGINS. How does your housekeeper get on with her?
HIGGINS. Mrs. Pearce? Oh, she's jolly glad to get so much taken off her hands; for before Eliza came, she had to have to find things and remind me of my appointments. But she's got some silly bee in her bonnet about Eliza. She keeps saying "You don't think, sir": doesn't she, Pick?
PICKERING. Yes: that's the formula. "You don't think, sir." That's the end of every conversation about Eliza.
HIGGINS. As if I ever stop thinking about the girl and her confounded vowels and consonants. I'm worn out, thinking about her, and watching her lips and her teeth and her tongue, not to mention her soul, which is the quaintest of the lot.
MRS. HIGGINS. You certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll.
HIGGINS. Playing! The hardest job I ever tackled: make no mistake about that, mother. But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul.
PICKERING [drawing his chair closer to Mrs. Higgins and bending over to her eagerly] Yes: it's enormously interesting. I assure you, Mrs. Higgins, we take Eliza very seriously. Every week—every day almost—there is some new change. [Closer again] We keep records of every stage—dozens of gramophone disks and photographs—
HIGGINS [assailing her at the other ear] Yes, by George: it's the most absorbing experiment I ever tackled. She regularly fills our lives up; doesn't she, Pick?
PICKERING. We're always talking Eliza.
HIGGINS. Teaching Eliza.
PICKERING. Dressing Eliza.
MRS. HIGGINS. What!
HIGGINS. Inventing new Elizas.
Higgins and Pickering, speaking together:
HIGGINS. You know, she has the most extraordinary quickness of ear:
PICKERING. I assure you, my dear Mrs. Higgins, that girl
HIGGINS. just like a parrot. I've tried her with every
PICKERING. is a genius. She can play the piano quite beautifully
HIGGINS. possible sort of sound that a human being can make—
PICKERING. We have taken her to classical concerts and to music
HIGGINS. Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot
PICKERING. halls; and it's all the same to her: she plays everything
HIGGINS. clicks, things it took me years to get hold of; and
PICKERING. she hears right off when she comes home, whether it's
HIGGINS. she picks them up like a shot, right away, as if she had
PICKERING. Beethoven and Brahms or Lehar and Lionel Morickton;
HIGGINS. been at it all her life.
PICKERING. though six months ago, she'd never as much as touched a piano.
MRS. HIGGINS [putting her fingers in her ears, as they are by this time shouting one another down with an intolerable noise] Sh—sh—sh—sh! [They stop].
PICKERING. I beg your pardon. [He draws his chair back apologetically].
HIGGINS. Sorry. When Pickering starts shouting nobody can get a word in edgeways.
MRS. HIGGINS. Be quiet, Henry. Colonel Pickering: don't you realize that when Eliza walked into Wimpole Street, something walked in with her?
PICKERING. Her father did. But Henry soon got rid of him.
MRS. HIGGINS. It would have been more to the point if her mother had. But as her mother didn't something else did.
PICKERING. But what?
MRS. HIGGINS [unconsciously dating herself by the word] A problem.
PICKERING. Oh, I see. The problem of how to pass her off as a lady.
HIGGINS. I'll solve that problem. I've half solved it already.
MRS. HIGGINS. No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards.
HIGGINS. I don't see anything in that. She can go her own way, with all the advantages I have given her.
MRS. HIGGINS. The advantages of that poor woman who was here just now! The manners and habits that disqualify a fine lady from earning her own living without giving her a fine lady's income! Is that what you mean?
PICKERING [indulgently, being rather bored] Oh, that will be all right, Mrs. Higgins. [He rises to go].
HIGGINS [rising also] We'll find her some light employment.
PICKERING. She's happy enough. Don't you worry about her. Good-bye. [He shakes hands as if he were consoling a frightened child, and makes for the door].
HIGGINS. Anyhow, there's no good bothering now. The thing's done. Good-bye, mother. [He kisses her, and follows Pickering].
PICKERING [turning for a final consolation] There are plenty of openings. We'll do what's right. Good-bye.
HIGGINS [to Pickering as they go out together] Let's take her to the Shakespear exhibition at Earls Court.
PICKERING. Yes: let's. Her remarks will be delicious.
HIGGINS. She'll mimic all the people for us when we get home.
PICKERING. Ripping. [Both are heard laughing as they go downstairs].
MRS. HIGGINS [rises with an impatient bounce, and returns to her work at the writing-table. She sweeps a litter of disarranged papers out of her way; snatches a sheet of paper from her stationery case; and tries resolutely to write. At the third line she gives it up; flings down her pen; grips the table angrily and exclaims] Oh, men! men!! men!!!