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only hear from foreigners, who were talk to speak like this. So after all, the bet is won, and Eliza, Higgins and Pickering leave for the reception. 4.) Higgins brings Eliza to his mothers house to try her out in a society. His mother isnt very happy of this because Higgins is always rude and she is afraid that her guests wont come again. The guests are Clara and Freddy Eynsford Hill and their mother. Although they have already seen Eliza in Covent Garden, they did not recognize her now, beautifully dressed and speaking perfectly pronounced English that Higgins has taught her. A trouble that Higgins knows Eliza will face is not her ability to speak rather her inability to say the proper thing. Her grammar is incorrect, and she the vocabulary and the subject matter of the street, not of high society. Higgins excuses it as the new small talk. Freddy and Clara both admire Eliza very much. Freddy falls "head over hills" in love with her and Clara decides to imitate Elizas unconventional conversation (they both think its her style). A few months later, at a reception at an embassy in London, Eliza causes a great excitement with her beauty, her graceful manners and her lovely speech. The renowned phonetician Nepommuck, a former pupil of Higgins is convinced that she is a Hungarian princess. Higgins has won his bet (if Nepommuck had discovered that she was only a common girl that Higgins would have lost, but Higgins remains calm). The flower girl has been transformed in to a fine lady. 5.) In the final act Eliza is found in Mrs. Higgins house upon her leaving the home one ...

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