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HIGGINS [i [He controls

hiht: 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 sixon 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 colish

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 ht; 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-uests

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 hihter who sheltered