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Wring Away

A dramedy monologue from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. About 1 min.

The flower girl Higgins turned into a lady realises she no longer needs him, and tells him so.

Eliza
late teens to 20s. A Covent Garden flower girl, now a lady

  1. Higgins has just lost his temper and laid hands on her.

  2. Wring away. What do I care?

  3. I knew you’d strike me some day.

  4. He lets her go, and stumbles back into his seat on the ottoman.

  5. Aha! Now I know how to deal with you.

  6. What a fool I was not to think of it before!

  7. You can’t take away the knowledge you gave me.

  8. You said I had a finer ear than you.

  9. And I can be civil and kind to people, which is more than you can.

  10. Aha! That’s done you, Henry Higgins, it has.

  11. Now I don’t care that for your bullying and your big talk.

  12. I’ll advertize it in the papers that your duchess is only a flower girl that you taught,

  13. and that she’ll teach anybody to be a duchess just the same in six months for a thousand guineas.

  14. Oh, when I think of myself crawling under your feet and being trampled on and called names,

  15. when all the time I had only to lift up my finger to be as good as you, I could just kick myself.

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Public domain, George Bernard Shaw, 1913. Text from Project Gutenberg #3825.

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