My Fair Lady Page #11

I don't wish to discuss it further tonight.

I'm going to bed.

ELIZA:
Leave your own note

about the coffee...

...for it won't be done by me!

Damn Mrs. Pearce,

damn the coffee and damn you!

Damn my own folly for having lavished

my hard-earned knowledge...

...and the treasure of my regard

and intimacy on a heartless guttersnipe!

"Just you wait, 'Enry 'Iggins

Just you wait!

"You'll be sorry

But your tears will be too late

"You will be the one it's done to

"And you'll have no one to run to

"Just you wait"

"I have often walked

down this street before

"But the pavement always stayed

beneath my feet before

"All at once am I several stories high

"Knowing I'm on the street where you live

"Are there lilac trees in the heart of town?

"Can you hear a lark

in any other part of town?

"Does enchantment pour

out of every door?

"No, it's just on the street where you live

"And, oh, the towering feeling

"Just to know somehow you are near

"The overpowering feeling

"That any second you may suddenly appear

"People stop and stare, they don't... "

Darling.

Freddy, whatever are you doing here?

Nothing. I spend most of my nights here.

It's the only place where I'm happy.

Don't laugh at me, Miss Doolittle.

Don't you call me "Miss Doolittle,"

do you hear? Eliza's good enough for me.

Freddy, you don't think

I'm a heartless guttersnipe, do you?

Darling, how could you imagine

such a thing? You know how I feel.

I've written two and three times a day

telling you. Sheets and sheets.

"Speak, and the world

is full of singing

"And I am winging higher than the birds

"Touch, and my heart begins to crumble

"The heavens tumble

Darling, and I'm-"

"Words, words, words

I'm so sick of words

"I get words all day through

First from him, now from you

"Is that all you blighters can do?

"Don't talk of stars burning above

"If you're in love, show me

"Tell me no dreams filled with desire

"If you're on fire, show me

"Here we are together

In the middle of the night

"Don't talk of spring

Just hold me tight

"Anyone who's ever been in love'll

Tell you that

"This is no time for a chat

"Haven't your lips longed for my touch?

"Don't say how much, show me

"Show me

"Don't talk of love lasting through time

"Make me no undying vow

"Show me now

"Sing me no song, read me no rhyme

"Don't waste my time, show me

"Don't talk of June, don't talk of fall

"Don't talk at all, show me

"Never do I ever

want to hear another word

"There isn't one I haven't heard

"Here we are together

in what ought to be a dream

"Say one more word and I'll scream

"Haven't your arms hungered for mine?

"Please don't explain, show me

"Show me

"Don't wait until wrinkles and lines

"Pop out all over my brow

"Show me now! "

- Where are you going?

- To the river.

- What for?

- To make a hole in it.

Eliza, darling, what do you mean?

Taxi!

- But I've no money.

- I have.

Where are we going?

ELIZA:
Where I belong.

Darling, shall I come with you?

MAN'S VOICE:

"With one enormous chair

"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?

"Lots of chocolate for me to eat

"Lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat

"Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet

"Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?"

Buy a flower, miss?

Yes, please.

Good morning, miss. Can I help you?

Do you mind if I warm my hands?

Go right ahead, miss.

Yes?

Excuse me. For a second

I thought you were somebody else.

Who?

Forgive me, ma'am. Early morning light

playing tricks with my eyes.

Can I get you a taxi?

A lady shouldn't be walkin' alone...

...around London this hour of the morning.

No, thank you.

ELIZA'S VOICE:

"Someone's head restin' on my knee

"Warm and tender as he can be

"Who takes good care of me

"Oh, wouldn't it...

"... be loverly?

"Loverly "

Do come again, Mr. Doolittle.

We value your patronage always.

Thank you, my good man. Thank you.

Here. Come 'ere.

Take the missus on a trip to Brighton

with my compliments.

Thank you, Mr. Doolittle.

Jolly spot this, Harry.

We must visit it more often.

Father?

Oh, no. You see, Harry, he has no mercy.

Sent her down to spy on me in me misery,

he did. Me own flesh and blood.

Well, I'm miserable, all right.

You can tell him that straight.

What are you talking about?

What are you dressed up for?

As if you didn't know.

Go on back to that Wimpole Street devil.

Tell him what he's done to me.

What's he done to you?

Ruined me, that's all.

Tied me up and delivered me

into the hands of middle-class morality.

And don't you defend him.

Was it 'im or was it not 'im wrote to an old

American blighter named Wallingford...

...who was giving $5,000,000

to found Moral Reform societies...

...to tell him the most original moralist

in England was Mr. Alfred P. Doolittle...

...a common dustman?

Sounds like one of his jokes.

You may call it a joke.

It's put the lid on me. Proper.

The old bloke died and left me

Who asked him to make a gentleman

outta me? I was 'appy. I was free.

I touched pretty nigh everyone for money

when I wanted it, same as I touched him.

Now I'm tied neck and 'eels

and everybody touches me.

A year ago I 'adn't a relation in the world...

...except one or two

who wouldn't speak to me.

Now I've 50. Not a decent week's wages

amongst the lot of them.

I have to live for others now,

not for meself. Middle-class morality.

Come on, Alfie, in a few hours

we have to be at the church.

- Church?

- Yeah, church.

The deepest cut of all.

Why do you think I'm dressed up

like a ruddy pallbearer?

Your stepmother wants to marry me.

Now I'm respectable,

she wants to be respectable.

ELIZA:
If that's the way you feel,

why don't you give the money back?

That's the tragedy of it, Eliza.

It's easy to say chuck it...

...but I 'aven't the nerve.

We're all intimidated.

That's what we are, intimidated.

Bought up. Yeah. That's what I am.

That's what your precious professor's

brought me to.

Not my precious professor.

Oh, sent you back, 'as he?

First he shoves me in the middle-class,

then he chucks you out for me to support.

That's all part of his plan...

...but you double-cross him.

Don't you come back home to me.

Don't you take tuppence from me.

You stand on your own two feet.

You're a lady now, you can do it.

Yeah, that's right, Eliza.

You're a lady now.

It's getting awfully cold

in that taxi.

ALFIE:
Here, Eliza, would you like to

come and see me turned off this morning?

St. George's, Hanover Square, 10:00.

I wouldn't advise it, but you're welcome.

No, thank you, Dad.

Are you all finished here, Eliza?

Yes, Freddy, I'm all finished here.

Good luck, Dad.

Thank you, Eliza.

Come along, Alfie.

ALFIE:
How much time have I got left?

"There's just a few more hours

"That's all the time you've got

"A few more hours

"Before they tie the knot"

There's drinks and girls all over London.

And I gotta track 'em down

in just a few more hours.

Set 'em up, me darlin'.

"I'm gettin' married in the mornin'

"Ding dong, the bells are gonna chime

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