ACT I. When I started reading the first act of Pygmalion, it didn't really make sense to me. Why are most people out at 11:15 p.m. at night? Was there a big party and everyone was invited? The book never explained why there were so many people out that particular night. Did anyone have a car that evening? Everyone was frantically rushing and whistling for cabs. The man writing in his journal seemed out of place to the rest of the crowd. While everyone was hurrying for a ride home, he was calmly writing in his notebook. I don't understand how the mother and sister expect Freddy to fetch a cab in the pouring rain. Everyone else is trying to retrieve a taxi for their ride home too. Freddy's sister was really rude to him; she should have tried to fight for a cab like everyone else. In a hurry, Freddy accidentally crashes into a flower girl and her basket. The messy girl's language is very hard to understand. I have to say it out loud to understand her words. I wonder if the flower girl really knew Freddy's name or if she was simply addressing him by a common name. When the gentleman warns her about the note taker, she rants about how she has done nothing wrong. She continues and goes on and on. Will she ever calm down and relax? I wonder if the note taker was writing her words down. I guess he was after repeating them in her accent. It was really weird how the note taker just randomly asked about the gentleman's family in Selsey. I don't even know where Selsey is. How does he know where all these people come from? Is that his occupation? I wonder if there is anyone with that job around here. That was rude of the mother and daughter to leave without Freddy. He worked hard to get a taxi for them and they won't be there to ride home with him. What a coincidence that Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering were traveling to meet each other, and didn't even know that they had already encountered. It was very nice of Freddy to let the flower girl have the cab he retrieved. I wonder how much change the flower girl accumulated from the generous people.