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MRS PEARCE [patiently] I think you'd better let irl

properly in private I don't know that I can take charge of her or

consent to the arrangement at all Of course I know you don't et what you call interested in people's

accents, you never think or care what may happen to theht Thank you, Mrs Pearce Bundle her off to

the bath-room

LIZA [rising reluctantly and suspiciously] You're a great bully, you

are I won't stay here if I don't like I won't let nobody wallop o to Bucknam Palace, I didn't I was never in trouble

with the police, not irl You don't understand the

gentleman Come with me [She leads the way to the door, and holds it

open for Eliza]

LIZA [as she goes out] Well, what I say is right I won't go near the

king, not if I' to haveood

girl; and I never offered to say a word to hi; and I don't care; and I won't be put upon; and I have s the same as anyone else--

Mrs Pearce shuts the door; and Eliza's plaints are no longer audible

Pickering comes from the hearth to the chair and sits astride it with