While Colonel Pickering was admiring Henry Higgins that he could a hundred and thirty vowel sounds, Eliza, who they had met , came to ask to see Higgins. She was dirty with dirty and badly dressed. Henry wanted the housekeeper to at first because he thought she was useless. After Colonel Pickering betted that if Henry could the girl as a lady, he would pay for the lesson, Henry had to and decided to teach her. But he asked the girl to be cleaned first and throw away her clothes. The girl was forced to follow the requirement and went out with Mrs Pearce.
Then, Henry told Pickering that he should teach her not only but grammar which she was . In order to teach her well, they made a best plan and decided to begin her lessons with the .