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HIGGINS [sulkily] Oh, well, if you say so, I suppose I don't always

talk like a bishop

MRS HIGGINS [quieting Henry with a touch] Colonel Pickering: will you

tell s in Wimpole Street?

PICKERING [cheerfully: as if this coed the subject] Well,

I have coether at my Indian

Dialects; and we think it more convenient--

MRS HIGGINS Quite so I know all about that: it's an excellent

arrangeirl live?

HIGGINS With us, of course Where would she live?

MRS HIGGINS But on what terms? Is she a servant? If not, what is she?

PICKERING [slowly] I think I knohat you ins

HIGGINS Well, dash irl every day

for et her to her present pitch Besides, she's useful She

knohere s are, and remembers my appointments and so forth

MRS HIGGINS How does your housekeeper get on with her?

HIGGINS Mrs Pearce? Oh, she's jolly glad to get so much taken off her