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PICKERING [stretching hi day The garden party, a dinner party, and the opera! Rather too

ins Eliza did the

trick, and so to spare, eh?

HIGGINS [fervently] Thank God it's over!

Eliza flinches violently; but they take no notice of her; and she

recovers herself and sits stonily as before

PICKERING Were you nervous at the garden party? I was Eliza didn't

seem a bit nervous

HIGGINS Oh, she wasn't nervous I knew she'd be all right No, it's

the strain of putting the job through all these h at first, while ere at the phonetics;

but after that I got deadly sick of it If I hadn't backedup twohas been a bore

PICKERING Oh coan beating like anything

HIGGINS Yes, for the first three

to win hands down, I felt like a bear in a cage, hanging about doing

nothing The dinner orse: sitting gorging there for over an hour,