Ker pa je moral polkovnik venomer znova priskočiti na pomoč in je do zadnjega dobrohotno vztrajal pri svojem in ker je Elizo poniževalo, ker se je morala venomer znova spuščati v prah in tako pogosto beračiti pri njem, in ker jo je pri tem bolel rjoveč posmeh Higginsa, kateremu je misel na to, da bi utegnil Freddy v čem uspeti, vselej pomenila špas, da si sploh ni mogel opomoči od krohota, se ji je nazadnje le posvetilo, da se je tudi poslovanju treba ravno tako priučiti kakor fonetiki.
But the Colonel, after making the ends meet over and over again, at last gently insisted; and Eliza, humbled to the dust by having to beg from him so often, and stung by the uproarious derision of Higgins, to whom the notion of Freddy succeeding at anything was a joke that never palled, grasped the fact that business, like phonetics, has to be learned.