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throw her out of the ?

THE FLOWER GIRL [running away in terror to the piano, where she turns

at bay] Ah--ah--ah--o--oo! [Wounded and whie when I've offered to pay like any lady

Motionless, the two men stare at her froently] What is it you want, irl?

THE FLOWER GIRL I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling

at the corner of Tottenham Court Road But they won't take enteel He said he could teachany favor--and he treats me as if I was dirt

MRS PEARCE How can you be such a foolish ignorant girl as to think

you could afford to pay Mr Higgins?

THE FLOWER GIRL Why shouldn't I? I knohat lessons cost as well as

you do; and I' back to hiht you'd co back a bit

of what you chucked at ht [Confidentially] You'd had a drop

in, hadn't you?