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Act I - 08 Act II - 42 Act III - 118 Act IV - 167 Act V - 191 (She sweeps out). MRS HIGGINS I’m afraid youve spoiled that girl, Henry. But never mind, dear: I’ll buy the tie and gloves. HIGGINS Oh, dont bother. She’ll buy em all right enough. Goodbye. - * * * * * * - The rest of the story need not be shewn in action, and indeed, would hardly need telling if our imaginations were not so enfeebled by their lazy dependence on the ready-mades and reach-me-downs of the ragshop in which Romance keeps its stock of “happy endings” to misfit all stories. Now, the history of Eliza Doolit- tle, though called a romance because the transfiguration it records seems exceed- ingly improbable, is common enough. Such transfigurations have been achieved by hundreds of resolutely ambitious young women since Nell Gwynne set them the example by playing queens and fascinating kings in the theatre in which she began by selling oranges. Nevertheless, people in all directions have assumed, for no other reason than that she became the heroine of a romance, that she must have married the hero of it. This is unbearable, not only because her little drama, if acted on such a thoughtless assumption, must be spoiled, but because the true se- quel is patent to anyone with a sense of human nature in general, and of feminine instinct in particular. Act I - 08 Act II - 42 Act III - 118 Act IV - 167 Act V - 191 |
