Pygmalion

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Excerpt: ...LIZA. Well, that's a mercy, anyhow. Expansively What I always say is- HIGGINS rising and looking at his watch Ahem! LIZA looking round at him; taking the hint; and rising Well: I must go. They all rise. Freddy goes to the door. So pleased to have met you. Good-bye. She shakes hands with Mrs. Higgins. MRS. HIGGINS. Good-bye. LIZA. Good-bye, Colonel Pickering. PICKERING. Good-bye, Miss Doolittle. They shake hands. LIZA nodding to the others Good-bye, all. FREDDY opening the door for her Are you walking across the Park, Miss Doolittle? If so- LIZA. Walk! Not bloody likely. Sensation. I am going in a taxi. She goes out. Pickering gasps and sits down. Freddy goes out on the balcony to catch another glimpse of Eliza. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL suffering from shock Well, I really can't get used to the new ways. CLARA throwing herself discontentedly into the Elizabethan chair. Oh, it's all right, mamma, quite right. People will think we never go anywhere or see anybody if you are so old-fashioned. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL. I daresay I am very old-fashioned; but I do hope you won't begin using that expression, Clara. I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unladylike. But this last is really too much. Don't you think so, Colonel Pickering? PICKERING. Don't ask me. I've been away in India for several years; and manners have changed so much that I sometimes don't know whether I'm at a respectable dinner-table or in a ship's forecastle. CLARA. It's all a matter of habit. There's no right or wrong in it. Nobody means anything by it. And it's so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty. I find the new small talk delightful and quite innocent. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL rising Well, after that, I think it's time for us to go. Pickering and Higgins rise. CLARA rising Oh yes: we have three at homes to go to still. Good-bye, Mrs....