HIGGINS [carried away]: Yes: in six months—in three if she has a good ear and a quick tongue—I'll take her anywhere and pass her off as anything. We'll start today: now! this moment! Take her away and clean her, Mrs. Pearce. Monkey Brand, if it won't come off any other way. Is there a good fire in the kitchen?
MRS. PEARCE: Yes. But—
HIGGINS: Take all her clothes off and burn them. Ring up Whiteley or somebody for new ones. Wrap her up in brown paper till they come.
LIZA [writhing in his grasp]: You're no gentleman, you're not, to talk of such things. I'm a good girl, I am; and I know what the like of you are, I do.
HIGGINS: We want none of your Lisson Grove prudery here, young woman. You've got to learn to behave like a duchess. Take her away, Mrs. Pearce. If she gives you any trouble, wallop her.
LIZA: No! I'll call the police, I will.
HIGGINS: But I have no place to put her.
MRS. PEARCE: There is no place except the small room above the kitchen where we used to have the musical box. I could put her there.
HIGGINS: Oh, that will do. Put her there.
MRS. PEARCE: Very well, sir. It's a pity. Such a nice girl.
HIGGINS: No place for her. Don't be silly, Mrs. Pearce.
Study the following statements:
(a) Higgins demands that Eliza's clothes be removed and burned immediately.
(b) Mrs. Pearce suggests wrapping Eliza in brown paper until new clothes arrive.
(c) Liza threatens to call the police on Higgins for his ungentlemanly actions