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∅excerpt from pygmalion
george bernard shaw∅

the flower girl
[coming back to him, triumphant] now you’re talking! i thought you’d come off it when you saw a chance of getting back a bit of what you chucked at me last night. [confidentially] you’d had a drop in, hadn’t you?

what effect do the stage directions in this excerpt have on the reader's understanding of this passage?
a) they indicate when and where the play is set.
b) they provide the reader with particularly vivid visual images.
c) they let the reader know the tone of the speaker and her actions.
d) they the reader understand which character is speaking at what time.