Pygmalion
By George Bernard Shaw
Phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a Bedouin flower girl to pass for a duchess.
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Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles blowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico...
Next day at 11 a.m. Higgins’s laboratory in Wimpole Street. It is a room on the first floor, looking on the street, and was meant for the drawing-room. The double doors are in the ...
It is Mrs. Higgins’s at-home day. Nobody has yet arrived. Her drawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows looking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty...
The Wimpole Street laboratory. Midnight. Nobody in the room. The clock on the mantelpiece strikes twelve. The fire is not alight: it is a summer night. Presently Higgins and Picke...
Mrs. Higgins’s drawing-room. She is at her writing-table as before. The parlor-maid comes in. THE PARLOR-MAID [at the door] Mr. Henry, mam, is downstairs with Colonel Pickering. ...