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n Hotel. She told me of the brutal way you two treated her. HIGGINS [bounding up again] What! PICKERING [rising also] My dear Mrs. Higgins, she's been telling you stories. We didn't treat her brutally. We hardly said a word to her; and we parted on particularly good terms. [Turning on Higgins]. Higgins did you bully her after I went to bed? HIGGINS. Just the other way about. She threw my slippers in my face. She behaved in the most outrageous way. I never gave her the slightest provocation. The slippers came bang into my face the moment I entered the room--before I had uttered a word. And used perfectly awful language. PICKERING [astonished] But why? What did we do to her? MRS. HIGGINS. I think I know pretty well what you did. The girl is naturally rather affectionate, I think. Isn't she, Mr. Doolittle? DOOLITTLE. Very tender-hearted, ma'am. Takes after me. MRS. HIGGINS. Just so. She had become attached to you both. She worked very hard for you, Henry! I don't think you quite realize what anything in the nature of brain work means to a girl like that. Well, it seems that when the great day of trial came, and she did this wonderful thing for you without making a single mistake, you two sat there and never said a word to her, but talked together of how glad you were that it was all over and how you had been bored with the whole thing. And then you were surprised because she threw your slippers at you! _I_ should have thrown the fire-irons at you. HIGGINS. We said nothing except that we were tired and wanted to go to bed. Did we, Pick? PICKERING [shrugging his shoulders] That was all. MRS. HIGGINS [ironically] Quite sure? PICKERING. Absolutely. Really, that was all. MRS. HIGGINS. You didn't thank her, or pet her, or admire her, or tell her how splendid she'd been. HIGGINS [impatiently] But she knew all about that. We didn't make speeches to her, if that's what you mean. PICKERING [conscience stricken] Perhaps we were a little inconsiderate. Is she very angry? MRS. HIGGINS [returning to her place at the writing-table] Well, I'm afraid she won't go back to Wimpole Street, especially now that Mr. Doolittle is able to keep up the position you have thrust on her; but she says she is quite willing to meet you on friendly terms and to let bygones be bygones. HIGGINS [furious] Is she, by George? Ho! MRS. HIGGINS. If you promise to behave yourself, Henry, I'll ask her to come down. If not, go
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