Alernatiove Ending to George Bernard Shaw´s Pygmalion

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Alternative Ending to Pygmalion

Act V

After Higgins, confesses to his undying love for Eliza. Eliza decides to leave Higgins’s home because felt that it would only hurt Higgins more to have her stay another moment in his home because she did not share the same feelings for him. She now resides at the home of Mrs. Higgins.

Mrs. Higgins’s drawing room. She is at her writing-table as before. The parlor-maid comes in.

THE PARLOR MAID [at the door]: Mr. Henry, madam, is downstairs

MRS. HIGGINS: Well, show him up.

THE PARLOR-MAID: He’s using the telephone, madam, phoning the police, I think

MRS.HIGGINS: What!

THE PARLOR-MAID [coming further in and lowering her voice]: Mr. Henry is in a state, madam. I thought I’d better tell you.

MRS. HIGGINS: If you had told me that Mr. Henry was not in a state it would have been more surprising. Tell them to come up when he’s finished with the police,. I suppose he’s lost something.

THE PARLOR-MAID: yes, madam [going]

MRS. HIGGINS: Go upstairs and tell Miss Doolittle that Mr. Henry is here. Please tell her that she mustn’t come down until I call for her.

THE PARLOR-MAID: Yes, madam

Higgins bursts in. he is, as the parlor-maid has said in a state.

HIGGINS: Look here, mother; a terrible thing has happened.

MRS. HIGGINS: Yes dear, Good-morning [He checks his impatience and kisses her, whilst the parlor-maid goes out]. What are you talking about?

HIGGINS: Eliza has left me!

MRS.HIGGINS: What did you do? You had to have frightened her!!

HIGGINS: But I did what you told me to I told her how I felt about her…

MRS. HIGGINS: Oh my word, my son has taken words of advise from me….

HIGGINS: I told her how I felt about her; nevertheless she turned away from me and left in the middle of the night. She over heard the conversation between the Colonel and I and how I gloated on how I changed Eliza.

MRS. HIGGINS: In that case Henry she had every right to leave.

HIGGINS: But mother, I’ve never felt this way before. I’ve sent the police looking for her.

MRS. HIGGINS: Now, what are the police going to do?

HIGGINS: What they’re paid to do, their job.

MRS. HIGGINS: Henry, she left because she wanted to. [Calls for the parlor-maid and signals her get Eliza

HIGGINS [Without notice he rambles on]: I left my pride behind to tell her how I felt about her and how I have grow...

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HIGGINS: No I am not

ELIZA: I am not your ginny pig anymore, go and experiment on another poor helpless young girl

HIGGINS: Eliza please just give me a chance.

ELIZA: I use to think I loved you…

HIGGINS: What!

ELIZA: …but now I know that you were just using me as an experiment to gloat to your friends about.

HIGGINS: Eliza, don’t say that

ELIZA: It’s the truth, you wanted for your trophy, not the you love and would forever.

HIGGINS: Stop with the stupidity and come home I love you and I want you to stay with me

ELIZA: I can’t come home with you.

HIGGINS: Why not Eliza?

Eliza looks at Henry in silence and then looks away. Henry holds her by her elbows.

ELIZA: Because…

HIGGINS: Because what? I love you isn’t that enough?

ELIZA: No, because I don’t love you Henry

Higgins looks at Eliza confused and speechless.

ELIZA: I can’t marry you because I am marrying Eddie.

HIGGINS: What!!

ELIZA: And you can’t change my mind.

Eliza exit the drawing room and leaves Henry standing there. Henry doesn’t know what to do but only to go home. He leaves the room and says goodbye to his mother. He feels ashamed and brokenhearted. The woman

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