0
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
3. ACT IIIIt is Mrs. Higgins's at-home day. Nobody has yet arrived. Her drawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows looking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in an older house of the same pretension. The windows are open, giving access to a balcony with flowers in pots. If you stand with your face to the windows, you have the fireplace on your left and the door in the right-hand wall close to the corner nearest the windows.Mrs. Higgins was brought up on Morris and Burne Jones; and her room, which is very unlike her son's room in Wimpole Street, is not crowded with furniture and little tables and nicknacks. In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things. A few good oil-paintings from the exhibitions in the Grosvenor Gallery thirty years ago (the Burne Jones, not the Whistler side of them) are on the walls. The only landscape is a Cecil Lawson on the scale of a Rubens. There is a portrait of Mrs. Higgins as she was when she defied fashion in her youth in one of the beautiful Rossettian costumes which, when caricatured by people who did not understand, led to the absurdities of popular estheticism in the eighteen-seventies.
In the corner diagonally opposite the door Mrs. Higgins, now over sixty and long past taking the trouble to dress out of the fashion, sits writing at an elegantly simple writing-table with a bell button within reach of her hand. There is a Chippendale chair further back in the room between her and the window nearest her side. At the other side of the room, further forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones. On the same side a piano in a decorated case. The corner between the fireplace and the window is occupied by a divan cushioned in Morris chintz.
It is between four and five in the afternoon.
The door is opened violently; and Higgins enters with his hat on.
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How did Mrs. Fairfax counsel Jane about avoiding a formal entrance before the elite group of guests?
To go into the drawing room while it was empty and before the ladies left the dinner table.
When was Girl Without a Room created?
Girl Without a Room was created on 1933-12-08.
Tell me a room in the house where you watch the most tv?
the living room
What was the name of the room with the nails in the movie Matilda?
the chokey
Who sings hotel room service?
pitbull sing hotel room service
How do you make a sentence with cluttered?
The cluttered room looked like a tornado had just hit.
What is a messy room called?
A messy room is often referred to as cluttered, disorganized, or untidy.
What is the definition of cluttered?
something that is a mess (like a room) a mess of litter, something disorderly
What is the best way to display small nicknacks if you don't want to have to dust them constantly?
haing them away from ceiling vents and in a open area of a room is best.
Why do you call a drawing room as a drawing room?
because you never draw anything in it XD
Where is Higgins?
In the room next to P7 ;) xx
Why does Rebeccas aunt fear that Mr Flagg will tell others if Rebeccas room is cluttered?
Rebecca's aunt fears that Mr. Flagg will tell others about Rebecca's cluttered room because it reflects poorly on the family's reputation. She worries that people will judge their upbringing and character based on the appearance of the room.
Why does Rebeccas aunt fear that Mr. Flagg will tell others if Rebeccas room is cluttered?
(plato users) == A
Why do you call drawing room drawing room?
AnswerI believe the drawing room was a formal living room where guests were received. Much as we do today this room was in pristine condition so even if an unexpected guest arrived they would be shown to this room and never know what the rest of the house looked like.
How do you put drawing in a sentence?
I could not hear the doorbell because I was drawing a bath. Who is that drawing near? Place your drawing on the desk and leave the room.
Scale drawing of a room?
picture showing the width and the lenght of a room
What are the release dates for HGTV'd - 2011 Cluttered Family Room Transformed Into Fun Fabulous Space for Modern Family of Four 1-9?
HGTV'd - 2011 Cluttered Family Room Transformed Into Fun Fabulous Space for Modern Family of Four 1-9 was released on: USA: 17 September 2011
