the common flower girl, "eliza doolittle", tells us of the simple pleasures she would like in life (a warm room, an enormous chair, chocolate, someone who cares for her) and how much she would appreciate these little things. as eliza grew up on the streets of london, she has a strong cockney accent (therefore pronouncing ‘lovely’ as ‘loverly’), the phoneticist, "professor henry higgins", overhears her and he places a bet that he can turn eliza into a lady within the space of a year.