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HIGGINS Of course I do, you little fool Five o you were

like a th: a

consort battleship You and I and Pickering will be three old bachelors

together instead of only two ins returns, dressed for the wedding Eliza instantly becoe is waiting, Eliza Are you ready?

LIZA Quite Is the Professor co?

MRS HIGGINS Certainly not He can't behave himself in church He

yain, Professor Good bye [She goes to

the door]

MRS HIGGINS [coins] Good-bye, dear

HIGGINS Good-bye, mother [He is about to kiss her, when he recollects

so] Oh, by the way, Eliza, order a ham and a Stilton cheese,

will you? And buy hts, and a

tie to match that new suit of mine, at Eale & Binman's You can choose

the color [His cheerful, careless, vigorous voice shows that he is

incorrigible]

LIZA [disdainfully] Buy them yourself [She sweeps out]

MRS HIGGINS I'irl, Henry But never

loves

HIGGINS [sunnily] Oh, don't bother She'll buy eins runs out Higgins, left alone, rattles his cash

in his pocket; chuckles; and disports hihly

self-satisfied manner

The rest of the story need not be shown in action, and indeed, would

hardly need telling if our iinations were not so enfeebled by their

lazy dependence on the ready-shop in

which Ros" to misfit all stories