PLEASE HELP! WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST TO ONLY RIGHT ANSWERS MRS. PEARCE [returning] This is the young woman, sir. The flower girl enters in a state. She has a hat with three ostrich feathers, orange, sky-blue, and red. She has a nearly clean apron, and the shoddy coat has been tidied a little. The pathos of this deplorable figure, with its innocent vanity and consequential air, touches Pickering, who has already straightened himself in the presence of Mrs. Pearce. But as to Higgins, the only distinction he makes between men and women is that when he is neither bullying nor exclaiming to the heavens against some featherweight cross, he coaxes women as a child coaxes its nurse when it wants to get anything out of her. HIGGINS [brusquely, recognizing her with unconcealed disappointment, and at once, babylike, making an intolerable grievance of it] Why, this is the girl I jotted down last night. She’s no use: I’ve got all the records I want of the Lisson Grove lingo; and I'm not going to waste another cylinder on it. [To the girl] Be off with you: I don’t want you. THE FLOWER GIRL Don’t you be so saucy. You aint heard what I come for yet. [To Mrs. Pearce, who is waiting at the door for further instruction] Did you tell him I come in a taxi? MRS. PEARCE Nonsense, girl! what do you think a gentleman like Mr. Higgins cares what you came in? THE FLOWER GIRL Oh, we are proud! He aint above giving lessons, not him: I heard him say so. Well, I aint come here to ask for any compliment; and if my money's not good enough I can go elsewhere. HIGGINS Good enough for what? THE FLOWER GIRL Good enough for ye-oo. Now you know, don’t you? I'm come to have lessons, I am. And to pay for em too: make no mistake. HIGGINS [stupent] W e l l ! ! ! [Recovering his breath with a gasp] What do you expect me to say to you? THE FLOWER GIRL Well, if you was a gentleman, you might ask me to sit down, I think. Don’t I tell you I'm bringing you business? HIGGINS Pickering: shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we throw her out of the window? THE FLOWER GIRL [running away in terror to the piano, where she turns at bay] Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-ow-oo! [Wounded and whimpering] I wont be called a baggage when I’ve offered to pay like any lady. Motionless, the two men stare at her from the other side of the room, amazed. PICKERING [gently] What is it you want, my girl? THE FLOWER GIRL I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they wont take me unless I can talk more genteel. He said he could teach me. Well, here I am ready to pay him--not asking any favor--and he treats me as if I was dirt. MRS. PEARCE How can you be such a foolish ignorant girl as to think you could afford to pay Mr. Higgins? THE FLOWER GIRL Why shouldnt I? I know what lessons cost as well as you do; and I'm ready to pay. HIGGINS How much? 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? HIGGINS [peremptorily] Sit down. THE FLOWER GIRL Oh, if you’re going to make a compliment of it-- HIGGINS [thundering at her] Sit down. MRS. PEARCE [severely] Sit down, girl. Do as you’re told. [She places the stray chair near the hearthrug between Higgins and Pickering, and stands behind it waiting for the girl to sit down]. THE FLOWER GIRL Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo! [She stands, half rebellious, half bewildered]. PICKERING [very courteous] Won't you sit down? THE FLOWER GIRL [coyly] Don’t mind if I do. [She sits down. Pickering returns to the hearthrug]. HIGGINS What’s your name? THE FLOWER GIRL Liza Doolittle.

1.What aspect of British culture is particularly emphasized in this play excerpt?
A) how socially accepted manners and politeness smooth behaviors in society
B) the strong emphasis upon linguistic research of the speech of everyday people
C) the varying professions of selling flowers on the street to selling them in a shop
D) the strong connection between one's social class and one's ability to speak "proper" English