At the end of the play, Higgins and Lisa proceed to quarrel. Higgins tells her that she should come back with him and he will adopt her as a daughter, or she could marry Pickering. She, however, responds that she won't even marry Higgins. She says that it's Freddy who she wants to marry, but Higgins dismisses him as a fool. Lisa's situation is difficult as it's hard to predict whether her decision to marry Freddy is really what she wants. We might suspect that it's only her womanly pride that forces her to do it. Most of the audience would rather like her to marry Higgins. Shaw made his play open-ended, as he believed we should be able to use our imagination in predicting what would happen next, instead of being provided with a expectable, ready-made ending. He didn't want his play to be unoriginal with a happy ending, similar to most other romances. 

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