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MRS HIGGINS But, my dear Mr Doolittle, you need not suffer all this

if you are really in earnest Nobody can force you to accept this

bequest You can repudiate it Isn't that so, Colonel Pickering?

PICKERING I believe so

DOOLITTLE [softening his edy of it, ma'am It's easy to say chuck it; but I haven't the

nerve Which one of us has? We're all intimidated Intimidated, ma'am:

that's e are What is there for e? I have to dye my hair already to keeppoor, and had put by a bit,

I could chuck it; but then why should I, acause the deserving poor

ht as well be millionaires for all the happiness they ever has They

don't knohat happiness is But I, as one of the undeserving poor,

have nothing between me and the pauper's uniform but this here blasted

three thousand a year that shoves me into the middle class (Excuse the

expression, ma'am: you'd use it yourself if you had ot you every way you turn: it's a choice between the Skilly of

the workhouse and the Char Bydis of the middle class; and I haven't the

nerve for the workhouse Intiht

up Happier men than me will call for my dust, and touch me for their