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HIGGINS [kissing her] I know, mother I came on purpose

MRS HIGGINS But you mustn't I'm serious, Henry You offend allwhenever 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? Se

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'h 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 irl 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 so wo wo as like you as possible I shall never get

into the way of seriously liking young wo abruptly and walking about, jingling his money