Pygmalion · Act II (2/2) (4/4)

| Liza | Oh, I don’t mind; only it sounded so genteel. I should just like to take a taxi to the corner of Tottenham Court Road and get out there and tell it to wait for me, just to put the girls in their place a bit. I wouldn’t speak to them, you know. | | Pickering | Better wait till we get you something really fashionable. | | Higgins | Besides, you shouldn’t cut your old friends now that you have risen in the world. That’s what we call snobbery. | | Liza | You don’t call the like of them my friends now, I should hope. They’ve took it out of me often enough with their ridicule when they had the chance; and now I mean to get a bit of my own back. But if I’m to have fashionable clothes, I’ll wait. I should like to have some. Mrs. Pearce says you’re going to give me some to wear in bed at night different to what I wear in the daytime; but it do seem a waste of money when you could get something to show. Besides, I never could fancy changing into cold things on a winter night. | | Mrs. Pearce | Coming back. Now, Eliza. The new things have come for you to try on. | | Liza | Ah⁠—ow⁠—oo⁠—ooh! She rushes out. | | Mrs. Pearce | Following her. Oh, don’t rush about like that, girl She shuts the door behind her. | | Higgins | Pickering: we have taken on a stiff job. | | Pickering | With conviction. Higgins: we have. |