Professor Higgins is seen all through Pygmalion as a very rude man. When one particular might count on a effectively educated man, such as Higgins, to be a gentleman, he is far from it. Higgins believes that how you treated an individual is not crucial, as long as you treat everybody equally.
The wonderful secret, Eliza, is not obtaining bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the exact same manner for all human souls: in brief, behaving as if you have been in Heaven, exactly where there are no third-class carriages, and one particular soul is as great as one more.