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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.	•ACTO III Es el día que recibe visitas la Sra. Higgins. •Todavía no ha llegado nadie. •Su salón, en un piso en el terraplén de Chelsea, tiene tres ventanas que miran al río; y el techo no es tan alto como lo sería en una casa más antigua con la misma pretensión. •Las ventanas están abiertas, dando acceso a un balcón con flores en macetas. •Si se para frente a las ventanas, tiene la chimenea a su izquierda y la puerta en la pared de la derecha cerca del rincón más próximo a las ventanas.
•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.	•La señora Higgins fue criada en Morris y Burne Jones; y su habitación, que es muy diferente a la habitación de su hijo en la calle Wimpole, no está llena de muebles, ni de mesitas y chucherías. •En el centro de la habitación hay una gran otomana; y esta, con la alfombra, el empapelado y las cortinas de chintz de Morris, los tapizados de brocado de la otomana y sus cojines, suministran todo el adorno y son demasiado bonitos para ser ocultos por los cachivaches de cosas inútiles. •Unos cuadros buenos de las exposiciones en Grosvenor Gallery de hace treinta años, (de Burne-Jones, no del tipo de los Whistler) son en las paredes. •El único paisaje es de Cecil Lawson, de la magnitud de Rubens. •Hay un retrato de la Sra. Higgins como era cuando desafiaba la moda en su juventud, llevando uno de los hermosos vestidos de Rossette, que condujeron a las tonterias del esteticismo popular de las décadas de mil ochocientos ochenta/setenta, cuando fueron caricaturizados por gente que no los entendia.
•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.	•En el rincón diagonalmente opuesto a la puerta, la Sra. Higgins, que ahora tiene más de sesenta años y hace mucho tiempo que no se toma la molestia de vestirse a la última moda, está sentada escribiendo en un escritorio elegante y simple, con un timbre al alcance de su mano. •Más atrás, entre ella y la ventana más cercana a su lado, en la habitación hay una silla Chippendale. •Al otro lado de la habitación, más adelante, hay una silla isabelina tallada aproximadamente en el estilo de Íñigo Jones. •En el mismo lado, un piano en una caja de resonancia decorada. •El rincón entre la chimenea y la ventana está ocupado por un diván Morris en chintz con capitoné.
•It is between four and five in the afternoon.	•Son entre las cuatro y las cinco de la tarde.
•The door is opened violently; and Higgins enters with his hat on.	•La puerta se abre violentamente; y Higgins entra con el sombrero puesto.
•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].	•SRA. HIGGINS [consternada] ¡Henry! •[regañándolo] ¿Qué estás haciendo aquí hoy? •Es mi día de visitas en casa: prometiste no venir. •[Cuando él se inclina para besarla, ella le quita el sombrero y se lo da].
•HIGGINS. •Oh bother! •[He throws the hat down on the table].	•HIGGINS. •¡Oh, caramba! •[Arroja el sombrero sobre la mesa].
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Go home at once.	•SRA.HIGGINS. •Vuelva a casa inmediatamente.
•HIGGINS [kissing her] I know, mother. •I came on purpose.	•HIGGINS[besándola] Lo sé, madre. •Vine a propósito.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •But you mustn't. •I'm serious, Henry. •You offend all my friends: they stop coming whenever they meet you.	•SRA.HIGGINS. •Pero no debes. •Hablo en serio, Henry. •Offendes a todos mis amigos: dejan de venir cada vez que te encuentran.
•HIGGINS. •Nonsense! •I know I have no small talk; but people don't mind. •[He sits on the settee].	•HIGGINS. •¡Tonterías! •Sé que no tengo conversación: pero a la gente no le molesta. •[Se sienta en el sofá].
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Oh! •don't they? •Small talk indeed! •What about your large talk? •Really, dear, you mustn't stay.	•SRA.HIGGINS. •¡Oh! •¿seguro? •¡Trivialidades, de hecho! •¿Y qué pasa con tus conversaciónes serias? •Realmente, querido, no debes quedarse.
•HIGGINS. •I must. •I've a job for you. •A phonetic job.	•HIGGINS. •Debo. •Tengo un trabajo para usted. •Un trabajo de fonética.
•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.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Inútil, querido. •Lo siento; pero no consigo hacer tus vocales; y aunque me gusta recibir bonitas postales en tu taquigrafía patentada, siempre tengo que leer las copias en escritura normal que me mandas con tanta consideración.
•HIGGINS. •Well, this isn't a phonetic job.	•HIGGINS. •Bueno, este no es un trabajo de fonética.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •You said it was.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Dijiste que lo era.
•HIGGINS. •Not your part of it. •I've picked up a girl.	•HIGGINS. •No la parte tuya. •He encontrado a una chica.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Does that mean that some girl has picked you up?	•SRA. HIGGINS. •¿Quieres decir que alguna chica te ha encontrado a ti?
•HIGGINS. •Not at all. •I don't mean a love affair.	•HIGGINS. •En absoluto. •No me refiero a un asunto amoroso.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •What a pity!	•SRA HIGGINS. •¡Qué lástima!
•HIGGINS. •Why?	•HIGGINS. •¿Por qué?
•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?	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Bueno, nunca te enamoraste de nadie de menos de cuarenta y cinco. •¿Cuándo vas a descubrir que hay algunas chicas jóvenes bastante atractivas por ahí?
•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, no tengo ninguna gana de chicas jóvenes. •Mi idea de una mujer adorable es algo tan parecido a usted como sea posible. •Nunca adquiriré la costumbre de enamorarme seriamente de mujeres jóvenes: algunas costumbres subyacen demasiado profundamente para ser cambiadas. •[Se levanta abruptamente y camina, tintineando el dinero y las llaves en los bolsillos de sus pantalones] Además, todas son idiotas.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Do you know what you would do if you really loved me, Henry?	•SRA. HIGGINS. •¿Sabes qué harías si realmente me quisieras, Henry?
•HIGGINS. •Oh bother! •What? •Marry, I suppose?	•HIGGINS. •¡Oh, caramba! •¿Qué? •¿Casarme, supongo?
•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.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •No. •Deja de moverte inquieto y saca las manos de los bolsillos. •[Con un gesto de desesperación, él obedece y vuelve a sentarse]. •Ese es un buen muchacho. •Ahora cuéntame sobre la chica.
•HIGGINS. •She's coming to see you.	•HIGGINS. •Ella viene a verla.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •I don't remember asking her.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •No recuerdo haberle pedido.
•HIGGINS. •You didn't. •I asked her. •If you'd known her you wouldn't have asked her.	•HIGGINS. •No lo hizo. •Yo le pedí. •Si usted la hubiera conocido no se lo habría pedido.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Indeed! •Why?	•SRA. HIGGINS. •¡No me digas! •¿Por qué?
•HIGGINS. •Well, it's like this. •She's a common flower girl. •I picked her off the kerbstone.	•HIGGINS. •Bueno, es así. •Es una florista común. •La saqué del cordón de la vereda.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •And invited her to my at-home!	•SRA. HIGGINS. •¡Y la invitaste a mi casa!
•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 [levantándose y acercándose a ella para convencerla] Oh, todo irá bien. •Le he enseñado a hablar bien; y tiene órdenes estrictas sobre su comportamiento. •Debe ceñirse a dos temas: el tiempo y la salud de todos....Un buen día y como está usted...y no se permitirá hablar de cosas en general. •Eso debe ser sin riesgo.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Safe! •To talk about our health! •about our insides! •perhaps about our outsides! •How could you be so silly, Henry?	•SRA.HIGGINS. •¡Sin riesgo! •¡Hablar de nuestra salud! •¡sobre nuestras entrañas! •¡quizás de nuestro exterior! •¿Cómo puedes ser tan tonto, 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 [con impaciencia] Bueno, tiene que hablar de algo. •[Se controla y se sienta de nuevo]. •Oh, ella lo hará bien: no te preocupes. •Pickering está en esto conmigo. •Tengo una especie de apuesta de que la haré pasar por una duquesa en seis meses. •Comencé con ella hace unos meses; y lo está haciendo de maravilla. •Ganaré mi apuesta •Tiene buen oído; y ha sido más fácil enseñarle a ella que a mis alumnos de clase media porque ha tenido que aprender por completo un nuevo lenguaje. •Habla inglés casi como usted habla francés.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •That's satisfactory, at all events.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Eso es satisfactorio, en todo caso.
•HIGGINS. •Well, it is and it isn't.	•HIGGINS. •Bueno, lo es y no lo es.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •What does that mean?	•SRA. HIGGINS. •¿Qué significa eso?
•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. •Ya ve, he conseguido su buena pronunciación; pero hay que considerar no solo cómo pronuncia una muchacha, sino también lo que pronuncia; y ahí es donde ... Son interrumpidos por la criada, anunciando invitados.
•THE PARLOR-MAID. •Mrs. and Miss Eynsford Hill. •[She withdraws].	•LA CRIADA. •La Sra. y la señorita Eynsford Hill. •[Se retira].
•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. •¡Oh Señor! •[Se levanta; arrebata su sombrero de la mesa; y va hacia la puerta; pero antes de que la alcance, su madre lo presenta].
•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.	•La Sra. y la señorita Eynsford Hill son la madre y la hija que se refugiaron de la lluvia en Covent Garden. •La madre es muy educada, tranquila y tiene la ansiedad habitual de tener medios limitados. •La hija ha adquirido un aire alegre de estar muy comoda en sociedad: la bravuconada de la pobreza gentil.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] How do you do? •[They shake hands].	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [a la Sra. Higgins] ¿Cómo está usted? •[Se dan la mano].
•MISS EYNSFORD HILL. •How d'you do? •[She shakes].	•SEÑORITA EYNSFORD HILL. •¿Cómo está usted? •[Le da la mano].
•MRS. HIGGINS [introducing] My son Henry.	•SRA. HIGGINS [presentando] Mi hijo Henry.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Your celebrated son! •I have so longed to meet you, Professor Higgins.	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL. •¡Su célebre hijo! •Tenía tantas ganas de conocerlo, profesor Higgins.
•HIGGINS [glumly, making no movement in her direction] Delighted. •[He backs against the piano and bows brusquely].	•HIGGINS [tristemente, sin moverse en su dirección] Encantado. •[Se retira hacia el piano y se inclina bruscamente].
•Miss EYNSFORD HILL [going to him with confident familiarity] How do you do?	•Sra. EYNSFORD HILL [ acercándose a él con familiaridad confiada] ¿Cómo está usted?
•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 [mirándola] La he visto antes en alguna parte. •No tengo ninguna idea de dónde; pero he oído su voz. •[Sin gracia] No importa. •Es mejor que se siente.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •I'm sorry to say that my celebrated son has no manners. •You mustn't mind him.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Lamento decir que mi famoso hijo no tiene modales. •No le haga caso.
•MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] I don't. •[She sits in the Elizabethan chair].	•SRTA. EYNSFORD HILL [alegremente] No pasa nada. •[ Ella se sienta en la silla isabelina].
•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].	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [ un poco deconcertada] En absoluto. •[ Ella está sentada en la otomana entre su hija y la Sra. Higgins, quien había girado su silla fuera del escritorio].
•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,¿he sido rudo? •No quise serlo. •[Se va hacia la ventana central, a través de la cual, de espaldas a las visitas, mira el río y las flores en Battersea Park en la otra ribera como si fueran un desierto de hielo].
•The parlor-maid returns, ushering in Pickering.	•La criada regresa, anunciando a Pickering.
•THE PARLOR-MAID. •Colonel Pickering [She withdraws].	•LA CRIADA. •El Coronel Pickering [Se retira].
•PICKERING. •How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?	•PICKERING. •¿Cómo está usted, Sra. 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].	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Muy contenta de que haya venido •¿Conoce a la Sra. Eynsford Hill, y la señorita Eynsford Hill? •[Intercambio de saludos. •El Coronel acerca un poco la silla Chippendale entre la Sra. Hill y la Sra. Higgins, y se sienta].
•PICKERING. •Has Henry told you what we've come for?	•PICKERING. •¿Le ha dicho Henry para qué hemos venido?
•HIGGINS [over his shoulder] We were interrupted: damn it!	•HIGGINS [por encima de su hombro] Nos interrumpieron: ¡maldita sea!
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Oh Henry, Henry, really!	•SRA. HIGGINS. •¡Oh Henry, Henry, en serio!
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [half rising] Are we in the way?	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [medio levantándose] ¿Estamos molestando?
•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.	•SRA. HIGGINS [levantándose y haciéndola sentarse de nuevo] No, no. •No podría haber venido más oportunamente: queremos que conozca a una amiga nuestra.
•HIGGINS [turning hopefully] Yes, by George! •We want two or three people. •You'll do as well as anybody else.	•HIGGINS [más esperanzado] ¡Sí, cielos! •Queremos dos o tres personas. •Lo hará tan bien como cualquier otra persona.
•The parlor-maid returns, ushering Freddy.	•La criada vuelve, acompañando a Freddy.
•THE PARLOR-MAID. •Mr. Eynsford Hill.	•LA CRIADA. •El Sr. Eynsford Hill.
•HIGGINS [almost audibly, past endurance] God of Heaven! •another of them.	•HIGGINS [casi audiblemente, sobrepasado su aguante] Dios del Cielo! •otro más.
•FREDDY [shaking hands with Mrs. Higgins] Ahdedo?	•FREDDY [dándole la mano a la señora Higgins] ¿Cómo está usted?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Very good of you to come. •[Introducing] Colonel Pickering.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Qué bien que haya venido. •[Presentando] Coronel Pickering.
•FREDDY [bowing] Ahdedo?	•FREDDY [inclinándose] ¿Cómo está usted?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •I don't think you know my son, Professor Higgins.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •No creo que conozca a mi hijo, el profesor Higgins.
•FREDDY [going to Higgins] Ahdedo?	•FREDDY [yendo hacia Higgins] ¿Cómo está usted?
•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 (mirándolo como si fuera un carterista), Juraría que lo he conocido antes en algún lugar. •¿Dónde fue?
•FREDDY. •I don't think so.	•FREDDY. •No lo creo.
•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 [resignadamente] No importa, de todos modos. •Siéntese. •Estrecha la mano de Freddy y casi lo arroja sobre la otomana con la cara hacia las ventanas; luego va al otro lado de la misma.
•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. •¡Bueno, aquí estamos, de todos modos! •[Se sienta en la otomana junto a la señora Eynsford Hill, a su izquierda.] •Y ahora, ¿de qué diablos vamos a hablar hasta que llegue Eliza?
•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.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Henry: eres la vida y el alma de las veladas de la Royal Society; pero verdaderamente eres muy tedioso en ocasiones más comunes.
•HIGGINS. •Am I? •Very sorry. •[Beaming suddenly] I suppose I am, you know. •[Uproariously] Ha, ha!	•HIGGINS. •¿Yo? •Lo siento mucho. •[Repentinamente sonriente] Supongo que sí, usted sabe. •[Ríe a carcajadas] ¡Ja, ja!
•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!	•SRTA. EYNSFORD HILL [quien considera que Higgins es muy elegible matrimonialmente] Comprendo. •No tengo ninguna conversación superficial. •¡Si las personas solo fueran francas y dijeran lo que realmente piensan!
•HIGGINS [relapsing into gloom] Lord forbid!	•HIGGINS [recayendo en la melancolía] ¡Dios no lo permita!
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [taking up her daughter's cue] But why?	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [siguiendo el ejemplo de su hija] ¿Pero por qué?
•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. •Lo que piensan que deberían pensar es suficiente malo, Dios lo sabe; Pero lo que realmente piensan rompería el espectáculo entero. •¿Piensa que sería realmente agradable si dijera ahora lo que de verdad pienso?
•MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] Is it so very cynical?	•SRTA. EYNSFORD HILL [alegremente] ¿Es tan cínico?
•HIGGINS. •Cynical! •Who the dickens said it was cynical? •I mean it wouldn't be decent.	•HIGGINS. •¡Cínico! •¿Quién demonios dijo que era cínico? •Quiero decir que no sería digno.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [seriously] Oh! •I'm sure you don't mean that, Mr. Higgins.	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [seriamente] ¡Oh! •Seguro que no quiere decir eso, Sr. 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. •Vea, todos somos salvajes, más o menos. •Se supone que somos civilizados y cultivados... que sabemos todo de la poesía y filosofía, arte y ciencia y todo;¿pero cuantos de nosotros no sabemos ni el significado de esos nombres? •[A la Srta Hill] ¿Qué conoce de la poesía? •[A la Sra Hill] ¿Qué conoce de la ciencia? •[señalando a Freddy] ¿Qué sabe de arte o ciencia o de cualquier otra cosa? •¿Qué diablos creen que sé de filosofía?
•MRS. HIGGINS [warningly] Or of manners, Henry?	•SRA. HIGGINS [como advertencia] ¿O de modales, Henry?
•THE PARLOR-MAID [opening the door] Miss Doolittle. •[She withdraws].	•LA CRIADA [abriendo la puerta] Miss Doolittle. •[Se retira].
•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 [se levanta apresuradamente y corre hacia la señora Higgins] Aquí está, madre. •[Se pone de puntillas y hace señas sobre la cabeza de su madre a Eliza para indicarle qué dama es su anfitriona].
•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, que está exquisitamente vestida, produce una impresión de distinción y belleza tan notables al entrar que todos se levantan, bastante nerviosos. •Guiada por las señales de Higgins, se acerca a la Sra. Higgins con gracia estudiada.
•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 [hablando con una corrección pedante al pronunciar y gran belleza de tono] ¿Cómo se encuentra, señora Higgins? •[Jadea un poco para garantizar la H en Higgins, pero con buen resultado]. •El señor Higgins me dijo que podía venir.
•MRS. HIGGINS [cordially] Quite right: I'm very glad indeed to see you.	•SRA. HIGGINS [cordialmente] Muy bien: Estoy muy contenta de verla.
•PICKERING. •How do you do, Miss Doolittle?	•PICKERING. •¿Cómo está, señorita Doolittle?
•LIZA [shaking hands with him] Colonel Pickering, is it not?	•LIZA [estrechándole la mano] Coronel Pickering, ¿no es así?
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •I feel sure we have met before, Miss Doolittle. •I remember your eyes.	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL. •Estoy segura de que nos hemos visto antes, señorita Doolittle. •Recuerdo sus ojos.
•LIZA. •How do you do? •[She sits down on the ottoman gracefully in the place just left vacant by Higgins].	•LIZA. •¿Cómo está usted? •[Se sienta con gracia en el otomano en el lugar que Higgins acaba de dejar vacío].
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My daughter Clara.	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [presentando] Mi hija Clara.
•LIZA. •How do you do?	•LIZA. •Mucho gusto en conocerla.
•CLARA [impulsively] How do you do? •[She sits down on the ottoman beside Eliza, devouring her with her eyes].	•CLARA. [impulsivamente] ¿Cómo está usted? •[Se sienta en la otomana al lado de Eliza, devorándola con los ojos].
•FREDDY [coming to their side of the ottoman] I've certainly had the pleasure.	•FREDDY [viniendo al lado de ellas en la otomana] Realmente he tenido el placer.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [introducing] My son Freddy.	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [presentando] Mi hijo Freddy.
•LIZA. •How do you do?	•LIZA. •Mucho gusto en conocerlo.
•Freddy bows and sits down in the Elizabethan chair, infatuated.	•Freddy saluda con una inclinación y se sienta en la silla isabelina, enamorado.
•HIGGINS [suddenly] By George, yes: it all comes back to me! •[They stare at him]. •Covent Garden! •[Lamentably] What a damned thing!	•HIGGINS [de pronto] Por Dios, sí: ¡ahora me acuerdo de todo! •[Lo miran fijamente]. •¡Covent Garden! •[lamentablemente] ¡Maldita sea!
•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.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Henry, ¡por favor! •[Él está a punto de sentarse en el borde de la mesa]. •No te sientes en mi escritorio: lo vas a romper.
•HIGGINS [sulkily] Sorry.	•HIGGINS [de mal humor] Lo siento.
•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.	•Se va hacia el sofá tropezando en el guardafuego y sobre los atizadores en su camino; liberándose murmurando imprecaciones; y terminando su viaje desastroso arrojándose en el diván con tanta impaciencia que casi lo rompe. •La Sra. Higgins le mira, pero se controla y no dice nada.
•A long and painful pause ensues.	•Sigue una larga y dolorosa pausa.
•MRS. HIGGINS [at last, conversationally] Will it rain, do you think?	•SRA.HIGGINS [por fin, conversacionalmente] ¿Va a llover, piensan?
•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. •La depressión superficial en el oeste de estas islas parece moverse lentamente en dirección este. •No hay indicaciones de gran cambio en la situación barométrica.
•FREDDY. •Ha! •ha! •how awfully funny!	•FREDDY. •¡Ja! •¡ja! •¡Qué divertido!
•LIZA. •What is wrong with that, young man? •I bet I got it right.	•LIZA. •¿Qué tiene de malo, joven? •Apuesto a que lo dije bien.
•FREDDY. •Killing!	•FREDDY. •¡De muerte!
•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.	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL. •Seguro que espero que no va a hacer frío. •Hay tanta gripe. •Pasa por toda nuestra familia con regularidad cada primavera.
•LIZA [darkly] My aunt died of influenza: so they said.	•LIZA [con pesimismo] Mi tía murió de gripe: eso dicen.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [clicks her tongue sympathetically]!!!	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL ¡¡¡[chasquea la lengua con empatía]!!!
•LIZA [in the same tragic tone] But it's my belief they done the old woman in.	•LIZA [en el mismo tono trágico] Pero mi creencia es que ellos ‘se cargaron a la vieja‘.
•MRS. HIGGINS [puzzled] Done her in?	•SRA. HIGGINS [perpleja] ¿'Se la cargaron'?
•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. •Sí-í-í-í-í, ¡Dios la bendiga! •¿Por qué había de morir de la gripe? •‘Se libró de la difteria y todo‘ el año anterior. •La vi con mis propios ojos. •Bastante azul, se puso. •Todos pensaban que estaba muerta; pero mi padre continuó metiéndole ginebra por la garganta hasta que volvió en sí tan súbitamente que mordió la cuchara.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [startled] Dear me!	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [sorprendida] ¡Vaya!
•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 [añadiendo a la acusación] ¿Qué pudo hacer que una mujer de esa fortaleza muriera de gripe? •¿Qué fue de su nuevo sombrero de paja que debería haber sido para mí? •Alguien 'lo birló'; 'y es que digo que cuando se lo birló se la cargó'.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •What does doing her in mean?	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL. •¿Qué significa "se la cargaron"?
•HIGGINS [hastily] Oh, that's the new small talk. •To do a person in means to kill them.	•HIGGINS [apresuradamente] Oh, esta es la moderna forma de hablar coloquial. •'Cargarse a una persona' significa matarla.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Eliza, horrified] You surely don't believe that your aunt was killed?	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [a Eliza, horrorizada] ¡No creerá usted que su tía fue asesinada!
•LIZA. •Do I not! •Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat.	•LIZA. •¡Cómo que no! •Los que vivían con ella la hubieran matado por un alfiler del sombrero, 'no digamos por un sombrero'.
•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.	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL. •Pero no está bien que su padre le echara licor en la garganta de esa manera. •Eso podría haberla matado.
•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. •A ella no. •La ginebra era leche materna para ella. •Además, él había vertido tanta en su propia garganta que sabía lo buena que era.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Do you mean that he drank?	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL. •¿Quiere decir que él bebía?
•LIZA. •Drank! •My word! •Something chronic.	•LIZA. •¡Beber! •¡Palabra! •Algo crónico.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •How dreadful for you!	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL. •¡Qué terrible para usted!
•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. •De ningún modo. •No le hizo ningún daño que sepa yo. •Pero no lo hacía regularmente. •[Alegremente] De borrachera, podría decir, de vez en cuando. •Y siempre más agradable cuando 'estaba tomado'. •Cuando estaba desempleado, mi madre solía darle cuatro peniques y decirle que se fuera y no regresara hasta que se hubiera emborrachado y vuelto alegre y amoroso. •Hay muchas mujeres que tienen que emborrachar a sus maridos para poder vivir con ellos. •[Ahora bastante a gusto] Ya ve, es así. •Si un hombre tiene un poco de conciencia, esta se adueña de él cuando está sobrio; y entonces ‘le pone el ánimo por los suelos‘. •Una gota de alcohol simplemente le quita eso y lo hace feliz. •[A Freddy, que está con espasmos de risa reprimida] ¡Oiga! •¿de qué se está riendo?
•FREDDY. •The new small talk. •You do it so awfully well.	•FREDDY. •La nueva charla superficial. •La hace tan terriblemente bien.
•LIZA. •If I was doing it proper, what was you laughing at? •[To Higgins] Have I said anything I oughtn't?	•LIZA. •Si lo estaba haciendo bien, ¿de qué se reía? •[A Higgins] ¿He dicho algo que no debería?
•MRS. HIGGINS [interposing] Not at all, Miss Doolittle.	•SRA. HIGGINS [interponiéndose] No, en absoluto, Srta.Doolittle.
•LIZA. •Well, that's a mercy, anyhow. •[Expansively] What I always say is— HIGGINS [rising and looking at his watch] Ahem!	•LIZA. •Bueno, es un consuelo, de todos modos. •[Explayándose] Lo que siempre digo es... HIGGINS [levantándose y mirando su reloj] ¡Ejem!
•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 [mirándole; comprendiendo la indirecta; y levantándose] Bueno: tengo que irme. •[Todos se levantan. •Freddy va a la puerta]. •Encantado de conocerla. •Hasta luego. •[Da la mano a la Sra. Higgins].
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Good-bye.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Hasta luego.
•LIZA. •Good-bye, Colonel Pickering.	•LIZA. •Adiós, Coronel Pickering.
•PICKERING. •Good-bye, Miss Doolittle. •[They shake hands].	•PICKERING. •Adiós, Srta. Doolittle. •[Se dan la mano].
•LIZA [nodding to the others] Good-bye, all.	•LIZA [saludando a los otros moviendo la cabeza] Adiós a todos.
•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 [abriéndole la puerta] ¿Va a caminar a través del parque, Srta Doolittle? •Si lo hace...LIZA. •¡Caminar! •De ningún maldito modo. •[Sensación]. •Voy en un taxi. •[Sale].
•Pickering gasps and sits down. •Freddy goes out on the balcony to catch another glimpse of Eliza.	•Pickering da un grito ahogado y se sienta. •Freddy sale al balcón para ver a Eliza otra vez.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [suffering from shock] Well, I really can't get used to the new ways.	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [sufriendo un transtorno] Bueno, realmente no puedo acostumbrarme a las nuevas maneras.
•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 [arrojándose disconforme en la silla isabelina]. •Oh, está bien, mamá, muy bien. •La gente pensará que nunca vamos a ningún lado ni vemos a nadie si eres tan anticuada.
•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?	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL. •Me atrevo a decir que soy muy anticuada; pero espero que no empieces a usar esas expresiones, Clara. •Me he acostumbrado a escucharte hablar de los hombres como sinvergüenzas y llamar a todo sucio y bestial, aunque lo considero horrible y poco femenino. •Pero esto último realmente es demasiado. •¿No le parece, Coronel 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. •No me pregunte. •He estado afuera, en la India, durante varios años; y los modales han cambiado tanto que a veces no sé si estoy en una mesa respetable o en la proa de un barco.
•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. •Todo es cuestión de costumbre. •No hay bien o mal en ello. •Nadie habla en serio con ello. •Y es tan pintoresco, y le da un énfasis moderno a cosas que no son en sí mismas muy ingeniosas. •La nueva forma de hablar me parece encantadora y bastante inocente.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [rising] Well, after that, I think it's time for us to go.	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [levantándose] Bueno, después de eso, creo que es hora de que nos vayamos.
•Pickering and Higgins rise.	•Pickering y Higgins se levantan.
•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 [levantándose] Oh, sí: tenemos tres casas para ir, todavía. •Adiós, Sra. Higgins. •Adiós, Coronel Pickering. •Adiós, profesor 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 [se acerca sombríamente desde el diván y la acompaña hasta la puerta] Adiós. •Asegúrese de intentar esa charlita en las tres casas. •No se preocupe por eso. •Déle con todo.
•CLARA [all smiles] I will. •Good-bye. •Such nonsense, all this early Victorian prudery!	•CLARA [toda sonrisas] Lo haré. •Adiós. •¡Qué tontería, toda esta vieja mojigatería victoriana!
•HIGGINS [tempting her] Such damned nonsense!	•HIGGINS [tentándola] ¡Maldita tontería!
•CLARA. •Such bloody nonsense!	•CLARA. •¡Qué condenada tontería!
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [convulsively] Clara!	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [convulsivamente] ¡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! •[Ella sale luminosa, consciente de estar totalmente al día, y se podía oírla bajando las escaleras en un churro de carcajadas].
•FREDDY [to the heavens at large] Well, I ask you [He gives it up, and comes to Mrs. Higgins]. •Good-bye.	•FREDDY [hacia el cielo] Bueno, le pregunto [ Renuncia y va a la sra. Higgins]. •Adiós.
•MRS. HIGGINS [shaking hands] Good-bye. •Would you like to meet Miss Doolittle again?	•SRA.HIGGINS [dando la mano] Adiós. •¿Desea usted encontrar a la srta. Doollittle otra vez?
•FREDDY [eagerly] Yes, I should, most awfully.	•FREDDY [ávidamente] Sí, me gustaría, mucho.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Well, you know my days.	•SRA.HIGGINS. •Bueno, conoce mis días.
•FREDDY. •Yes. •Thanks awfully. •Good-bye. •[He goes out].	•FREDDY. •Sí. •Muchas gracias. •Adiós. •[Sale].
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Good-bye, Mr. Higgins.	•SRA.EYNSFORD HILL. •Adiós, Sr.Higgins.
•HIGGINS. •Good-bye. •Good-bye.	•HIGGINS. •Adiós. •Adiós.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Pickering] It's no use. •I shall never be able to bring myself to use that word.	•SRA.EYNSFORD HILL [a Pickering] No vale la pena. •Nunca podré utilizar esa palabra.
•PICKERING. •Don't. •It's not compulsory, you know. •You'll get on quite well without it.	•PICKERING. •No lo haga. •No es obligatorio, sabe. •Usted se las arreglará bastante bien sin usarla.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Only, Clara is so down on me if I am not positively reeking with the latest slang. •Good-bye.	•SRA.EYNSFORD HILL. •Pero Clara me critica si no estoy positivamente usando el último modismo. •Adiós.
•PICKERING. •Good-bye [They shake hands].	•PICKERING. •Adiós [Se dan la mano].
•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?	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL [a la Sra. Higgins] No tiene que molestarse por Clara. •[Pickering, captando por la bajada del tono que eso no estaba pensado para que lo escuchara él, se reúne discretamente con Higgins junto a la ventana]. •¡Somos tan pobres! •y la invitan a tan pocas fiestas, ¡pobre chica! •Ella no se da mucha cuenta. •[La Sra. Higgins, viendo que sus ojos están húmedos, le toma la mano con compasión y va con ella a la puerta]. •Pero el chico es majo. •¿No le parece?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Oh, quite nice. •I shall always be delighted to see him.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •¡Oh!, muy majo. •Siempre estaré encantada de verlo.
•MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. •Thank you, dear. •Good-bye. •[She goes out].	•SRA. EYNSFORD HILL. •Gracias, querida. •Adiós. •[Sale].
•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. [con impaciencia] ¿Y? •¿Es presentable Eliza? [Se precipita hacia su madre y la arrastra a la otomana, donde ella se sienta en el sitio de Eliza con su hijo a la izquierda].
•Pickering returns to his chair on her right.	•Pickering vuelve a su silla a la derecha de ella.
•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.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Qué tonto eres, claro que no es presentable. •Ella es un triunfo de tu arte y del de su modista; pero si supones por un momento que ella no se muestra como es en cada frase que pronuncia, debes de estar completamente perdido por ella.
•PICKERING. •But don't you think something might be done? •I mean something to eliminate the sanguinary element from her conversation.	•PICKERING. •¿Pero no crees que se puede hacer algo? •Quiero decir, algo para eliminar el elemento sanguinario de su conversación.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Not as long as she is in Henry's hands.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •No mientras esté en manos de Henry.
•HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?	•HIGGINS. [ofendido] ¿Quiere decir que mi lenguaje es inapropiado?
•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.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •No, queridísimo: sería muy apropiado... digamos en una barcaza de canal; pero no sería apropiado para ella en una fiesta de jardín.
•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 [herido profundamente] Bueno, tengo que decir –PICKERING [interrumpiéndolo] Vamos, Higgins: debería de aprender a conocerse a sí mismo. •No he oído un lenguaje como el suyo desde que acostumbrábamos a pasar revista a los voluntarios en Hyde Park hace veinte años.
•HIGGINS [sulkily] Oh, well, if you say so, I suppose I don't always talk like a bishop.	•HIGGINS [de mal humor] Oh, bueno, si usted lo dice, supongo que no siempre hablo como un obispo.
•MRS. HIGGINS [quieting Henry with a touch] Colonel Pickering: will you tell me what is the exact state of things in Wimpole Street?	•SRA. HIGGINS [tranquilizando a Henry con un toque] Coronel Pickering: ¿me dirá usted exactamente cuál es la situación en la calle Wimpole?
•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 [alegremente: como si esto hubiera cambiado completamente el tema] Bueno, he ido a vivir allí con Henry. •Trabajamos juntos en los dialectos indios; y nos parece más conveniente... SRA. HIGGINS. •Así es. •Lo sé todo sobre eso: es un excelente arreglo. •¿Pero dónde vive esta chica?
•HIGGINS. •With us, of course. •Where would she live?	•HIGGINS. •Con nosotros, por supuesto. •¿Dónde tendría que vivir?
•MRS. HIGGINS. •But on what terms? •Is she a servant? •If not, what is she?	•SRA. HIGGINS. •¿Pero en qué condiciones? •¿Es una sirvienta? •Si no, ¿qué es?
•PICKERING [slowly] I think I know what you mean, Mrs. Higgins.	•PICKERING [lentamente] Creo que sé lo que quiere decir, Sra. 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. •¡Que me parta un rayo si lo entiendo! •He tenido que trabajar con la chica todos los días durante meses para llevarla a su forma de hablar actual. •Además, ella es útil. •Sabe dónde están mis cosas y recuerda mis citas y demás.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •How does your housekeeper get on with her?	•SRA. HIGGINS. •¿Cómo se lleva tu ama de llaves con ella?
•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. •¿La Sra. Pearce? •Oh, está muy contenta de que le quiten tanto de sus manos; porque antes de que llegara Eliza, tenía que encontrar cosas y recordarme mis citas. •Pero tiene alguna obsesión absurda acerca de Eliza. •Se la pasa diciendo "No piensa, señor": ¿no es así, Pick?
•PICKERING. •Yes: that's the formula. •"You don't think, sir." •That's the end of every conversation about Eliza.	•PICKERING. •Sí: ese es el patrón. •"No piensa Ud., señor". •Ese es el final de cada conversación sobre 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. •Como si alguna vez dejara de pensar en la muchacha y sus vocales y consonantes confundidas. •Estoy agotado de pensar en ella, y observando sus labios, sus dientes y su lengua, por no mencionar su alma, que es lo más pintoresco de todo.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •You certainly are a pretty pair of babies, playing with your live doll.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Definitivamente, ustedes son un bonito par de bebés, jugando con su muñeca viviente.
•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. •¡Jugando! •Es el trabajo más difícil que he abordado jamás: no se equivoque al respecto, madre. •Pero no tiene ni idea de lo tremendamente interesante que es tomar a un ser humano y convertirlo en un ser humano muy diferente al crearle un nueva forma de expresarse. •Es llenar el abismo más profundo que separa una clase de otra clase y un alma de otra alma.
•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 [acercando su silla a la Sra. Higgins e inclinándose hacia ella con entusiasmo] Sí: es enormemente interesante. •Le aseguro, Sra. Higgins, que nos tomamos a Eliza muy en serio. •Cada semana, casi cada día, hay algún nuevo cambio. •[Más cerca, otra vez] Gardamos registros de cada etapa...docenas de discos de gramófonos y fotografías... HIGGINS [asaltándola al otro lado] Sí, por Dios: es el experimento más interesante que nunca he afrontado. •Ella llena nuestras vidas constantemente; ¿no piensas, Pick?
•PICKERING. •We're always talking Eliza.	•PICKERING. •Siempre estamos hablando de Eliza.
•HIGGINS. •Teaching Eliza.	•HIGGINS. •Enseñando a Eliza.
•PICKERING. •Dressing Eliza.	•PICKERING. •Vistiendo a Eliza.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •What!	•SRA.HIGGINS. •¡Qué!
•HIGGINS. •Inventing new Elizas.	•HIGGINS. •Inventando nuevas 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 y Pickering, hablando juntos: HIGGINS. •Sabe, ella tiene un buen oído de lo más extraordianario: PICKERING. •Se lo aseguro, querida Sra. Higgins, esa chica HIGGINS. •parece un loro. •La he probado con todo PICKERING. •Es un genio. •Toca el piano muy bien HIGGINS. •cada posible tipo de sonido que un ser humano puede hacer... PICKERING. •La hemos llevado a conciertos clásicos y a espectáculos HIGGINS. •Dialectos continentales, dialectos africanos, hotentote PICKERING. •musicales; y para ella todo es lo mismo: ella lo toca todo HIGGINS •conecta con, cosas que me llevó años conseguir; y PICKERING •lo que oye correctamente cuando viene a casa, ya sea HIGGINS •ella los capta como una bala, al momento, como si hubiera PICKERING. •Beethoven y Brahms o Lehar y Lionel Morickton; HIGGINS. •estado en ello toda su vida.
•PICKERING. •though six months ago, she'd never as much as touched a piano.	•PICKERING. •a pesar de que hace seis meses, ella ni siquiera había puesto la mano en un 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].	•SRA. HIGGINS [poniendo sus manos en los oídos, mientras ellos han llegado al punto de gritarse mutuamente con un ruido intolerable] ¡Sh... sh... sh... sh! •[Dejan de gritar].
•PICKERING. •I beg your pardon. •[He draws his chair back apologetically].	•PICKERING. •Le pido perdón. •[Corre su silla hacia atrás disculpándose].
•HIGGINS. •Sorry. •When Pickering starts shouting nobody can get a word in edgeways.	•HIGGINS. •Disculpe. •Cuando Pickering comienza a gritar nadie puede meter baza.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •Be quiet, Henry. •Colonel Pickering: don't you realize that when Eliza walked into Wimpole Street, something walked in with her?	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Tranquilo, Henry. •Coronel Pickering: ¿no se da cuenta de que cuando Eliza entró en Wimpole Street, algo más entró con ella?
•PICKERING. •Her father did. •But Henry soon got rid of him.	•PICERING. •Su padre entró. •Pero Henry enseguida se libró de él.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •It would have been more to the point if her mother had. •But as her mother didn't something else did.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •Habría sido más procedente si su madre lo hubiera hecho. •Pero como su madre no lo hizo, otra cosa le hizo.
•PICKERING. •But what?	•PICKERING. •¿Pero qué?
•MRS. HIGGINS [unconsciously dating herself by the word] A problem.	•SRA.HIGGINS. [inconcientemente mostrando su edad con la palabra] Un problema.
•PICKERING. •Oh, I see. •The problem of how to pass her off as a lady.	•PICKERING. •Oh, veo. •El problema de como hacerla pasar por una dama.
•HIGGINS. •I'll solve that problem. •I've half solved it already.	•HIGGINS. •Voy a solucionar ese problema. •Ya lo tengo medio solucionado.
•MRS. HIGGINS. •No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards.	•SRA. HIGGINS. •No, vosotros dos inmensamente estupidos machos: el problema es qué hacer con ella después.
•HIGGINS. •I don't see anything in that. •She can go her own way, with all the advantages I have given her.	•HIGGINS. •No veo ningún problema con eso. •Ella puede seguir su propio camino, con todas las ventajas que le he dado.
•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?	•SRA.HIGGINS. •¡Las ventajas de esa pobre mujer que estaba aquí ahora mismo! •¡Los modales y los hábitos que descalifican a una buena dama para ganarse la vida sin darle los buenos ingresos de una dama! •¿Es eso lo que quieres decir?
•PICKERING [indulgently, being rather bored] Oh, that will be all right, Mrs. Higgins. •[He rises to go].	•PICKERING [indulgente, estando bastante aburrido] Oh, eso estará bien, Sra. Higgins. •[Se levanta para irse].
•HIGGINS [rising also] We'll find her some light employment.	•HIGGINS [levantándose también] Le encontraremos un empleo sencillo.
•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. •Ella es lo suficientemente feliz. •No se preocupe por ella. •Adiós. •[Le da la mano como si estuviera consolando a un niño asustado y se dirige hacia la puerta].
•HIGGINS. •Anyhow, there's no good bothering now. •The thing's done. •Good-bye, mother. •[He kisses her, and follows Pickering].	•HIGGINS. •De todos modos, no hay motivo para preocuparse ahora. •Ya está hecho. •Adiós, madre. •[La besa y sigue a Pickering].
•PICKERING [turning for a final consolation] There are plenty of openings. •We'll do what's right. •Good-bye.	•PICKERING [girándose para un consuelo final] Hay muchas oportunidades. •Haremos lo correcto. •Adiós.
•HIGGINS [to Pickering as they go out together] Let's take her to the Shakespear exhibition at Earls Court.	•HIGGINS [a Pickering, al salir juntos] Vamos a llevarla a la exposición de Shakespeare en Earls Court.
•PICKERING. •Yes: let's. •Her remarks will be delicious.	•PICKERING. •Sí, vamos. •Sus observaciones van a ser encantadoras.
•HIGGINS. •She'll mimic all the people for us when we get home.	•HIGGINS. •Va a imitar a toda la gente para nosotros cuando lleguemos a casa.
•PICKERING. •Ripping. •[Both are heard laughing as they go downstairs].	•PICKERING. •Fenómeno. •[Se les oye reír a los dos mientras bajan las escaleras].
•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!! •!	•SRA. HIGGINS [se levanta de un salto impaciente y vuelve a su trabajo en el escritorio. •Aparta un montón de papeles en desorden lejos de ella; saca una hoja de papel de su caja de papel y sobres; e intenta escribir con determinación. •A la tercera línea lo deja; tira la pluma; se aferra la mesa con rabia y exclama] ¡Oh, hombres! •¡¡hombres!! •¡¡¡hombres!! •¡

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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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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[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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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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[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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unit 320

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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unit 326

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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unit 333

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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unit 338

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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unit 355

[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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unit 358

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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unit 362

Freddy goes to the door].
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unit 363

So pleased to have met you.
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unit 364

Good-bye.
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unit 365

[She shakes hands with Mrs. Higgins].
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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unit 367

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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unit 372

[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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unit 376

Walk!
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unit 377

Not bloody likely.
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unit 378

[Sensation].
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unit 379

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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unit 382

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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unit 385

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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unit 398

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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unit 410

Pitch it in strong.
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CLARA [all smiles] I will.
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unit 412

Good-bye.
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unit 413

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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unit 432

Good-bye.
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unit 433

[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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unit 437

Good-bye.
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unit 438

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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unit 442

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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unit 447

Good-bye.
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unit 448

PICKERING.
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unit 449

Good-bye [They shake hands].
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MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [to Mrs. Higgins] You mustn't mind Clara.
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unit 451

[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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unit 452

We're so poor!
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unit 453

and she gets so few parties, poor child!
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unit 454

She doesn't quite know.
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unit 455

[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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unit 457

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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unit 463

Good-bye.
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unit 464

[She goes out].
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HIGGINS [eagerly] Well?
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unit 466

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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unit 480

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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unit 485

Quite so.
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I know all about that: it's an excellent arrangement.
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unit 487

But where does this girl live?
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HIGGINS.
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unit 489

With us, of course.
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Where would she live?
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MRS. HIGGINS.
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unit 492

But on what terms?
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unit 493

Is she a servant?
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unit 494

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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unit 498

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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unit 506

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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unit 510

"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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Pigmalión, de G. B. Shaw-Ubicación en el sitio de los capítulos de este libro:
0-https://translatihan.com/couples/en-es/articles/1617/
1-https://translatihan.com/couples/en-es/articles/1625/
2-https://translatihan.com/couples/en-es/articles/1631/
3-https://translatihan.com/couples/en-es/articles/1680/
4-https://translatihan.com/couples/en-es/articles/1721/
5- https://translatihan.com/couples/en-es/articles/1731/

by soybeba 6 years, 4 months ago

Extraído de The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3825/3825-h/3825-h.htm

by soybeba 6 years, 4 months ago

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!!!