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and his keys in his trouser pockets] Besides, they're all idiots

MRS HIGGINS Do you knohat 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 tellto see you

MRS HIGGINS I don't re 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 coirl I picked her

off the kerbstone

MRS HIGGINS And invited her toto 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?