... At one point Mr Higgins colleague Colonel Pickering, shocked by the mans callous attitude, inquires, "Have you no morals, man?" to which Doolittle simply replies, "Nah can't afford none. Neither could you if you were as poor as me!" Act 2 begins with Higgins and Pickering resting from a full morning of discussion when Eliza Doolittle shows up at the door, to the surprise of the two gentlemen. Prompted by his careless brag about making her into a duchess the night before, she has come to take lessons from Higgins, so that she may sound genteel enough to work in a flower shop rather than sell at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. As the conversation progresses, Higgins alternates between making fun of the poor girl and threatening her with a broomstick beating, which only causes her to howl and holler. Pickering is much kinder and considerate of her feelings, even ...

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