Following her success at the Embassy Ball, Eliza confronts Higgins about his cold indifference. She expresses her fury at being treated like an experiment rather than a human being with a future.
ELIZA: There are your slippers. And there. Take your slippers; and may you never have a day's luck with them!
HIGGINS: What's the matter? Is anything wrong?
ELIZA: Nothing wrong—with you. I've won your bet for you, havnt I? Thats enough for you. I dont matter, I suppose.
HIGGINS: You won my bet! You
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