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HIGGINS But ant to find her

PICKERING We can't let her go like this, you know, Mrs Higgins What

e to do?

MRS HIGGINS You have no more sense, either of you, than two children

Why--

The parlor-maid comes in and breaks off the conversation

THE PARLOR-MAID Mr Henry: a gentleman wants to see you very

particular He's been sent on from Wimpole Street

HIGGINS Oh, bother! I can't see anyone now Who is it?

THE PARLOR-MAID A Mr Doolittle, Sir

PICKERING Doolittle! Do you entlee, Pick, it's soone to So about [To the

parlor-oes]

HIGGINS [eagerly, going to his[He sits down in the Chippendale chair]

MRS HIGGINS Do you know any of her people?

PICKERING Only her father: the felloe told you about

THE PARLOR-MAID [announcing] Mr Doolittle [She withdraws]

Doolittle enters He is brilliantly dressed in a new fashionable

frock-coat, hite waistcoat and grey trousers A flower in his