My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 3: In Six Months - In Three If She Has a Good Ear and a Quick Tongue
演唱：Jamie Parker、Malcolm Sinclair"Higgins (Higgins immediately closes the door and turns to Pickering enthusiastically.) (spoken)
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. I’ll make a Queen of that barbarous wretch.
(Higgins has crossed into the library, picks up some more charts and studies them intently.)
Pickering (spoken)
Higgins, forgive the bluntness, but if I’m to be in this business, I shall feel responsible for the girl. I hope it’s clearly understood that no advantage is to be taken of her position.
Higgins (not even looking up)
What? That thing? Sacred, I assure you.
Pickering
Now come, Higgins, you know what I mean! This is no trifling matter! Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?
Higgins (still not looking up)
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
Pickering
Yes. Very frequently.
Higgins (crosses to desk, puts papers down)
Well, I haven’t. I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself become friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
(Having put all papers down, he takes his glasses off and puts them in his pocket.)
So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor, and likely to remain so. After all, Pickering:"
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. I’ll make a Queen of that barbarous wretch.
(Higgins has crossed into the library, picks up some more charts and studies them intently.)
Pickering (spoken)
Higgins, forgive the bluntness, but if I’m to be in this business, I shall feel responsible for the girl. I hope it’s clearly understood that no advantage is to be taken of her position.
Higgins (not even looking up)
What? That thing? Sacred, I assure you.
Pickering
Now come, Higgins, you know what I mean! This is no trifling matter! Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?
Higgins (still not looking up)
Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
Pickering
Yes. Very frequently.
Higgins (crosses to desk, puts papers down)
Well, I haven’t. I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself become friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
(Having put all papers down, he takes his glasses off and puts them in his pocket.)
So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor, and likely to remain so. After all, Pickering:"