Read it through once

The idea of 'transforming' Eliza is discussed. Higgins is confident and asserts that speech and manners make the lady. Pickering nuances the suggestion with kindness. Mrs. Pearce, the housekeeper, appears and tidies things up, expressing doubt and concern at Higgins' plan. She is practical and disturbed at the thought of bringing a poor girl into a gentleman's house. Higgins laughs at the idea of inconvenience and insists on treating the experiment as scientific work. The act closes with the girl's decision — Eliza, tired of her present life and attracted by the prospects of bettering herself, resolves to try to learn to speak properly, and she asks Higgins to take her as a pupil. Higgins accepts, and the curtain falls as the scene closes on the bustling Covent Garden morning.