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MRS HIGGINS Very nicely put, indeed, Henry No woman could resist

such an invitation

HIGGINS You let her alone, mother Let her speak for herself You will

jolly soon see whether she has an idea that I haven't put into her head

or a word that I haven't put into herout of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now

she pretends to play the fine lady with me

MRS HIGGINS [placidly] Yes, dear; but you'll sit doon't you?

Higgins sits down again, savagely

LIZA [to Pickering, taking no apparent notice of Higgins, and working

away deftly] Will you drop ether now that the experi?

PICKERING Oh don't You mustn't think of it as an experiment It

shocks e leaf

PICKERING [i quietly]--but I owe so ot me

PICKERING It's very kind of you to say so, Miss Doolittle

LIZA It's not because you paid for enerous

to everybody with money But it was from you that I learnt really nice

manners; and that is what makes one a lady, isn't it? You see it was so

very difficult for ins always