If the British accent was so British as to have impressed the damsel I suspect the person to be having in him an Indian Gene! No Cockney, York or a Jordy accent can ever be impressive let alone be called ‘British’. VS Naipaul once said that the last Englishman alive would be an Indian. He was referring to our very British speech (atleast those bred and brought up with public school education).

Further evidence comes from his singing praise of the female form compairing it with animals and birds . We Indians call beautiful eyes as ‘Mrignainy’ and a sensuous walk as that of a ‘Hirni’ (both referring to the deer) and an enchanting voice is compared to a ‘Koyal’ (a bird), a sharp nose with a parrot’s beak and light shades of the cornea with those of a cat.

So I suspect an Indian Gene in the so-called British lad.

But comparing ankles to racehorses brings in yet another dimension. Did the lad have an Arab gene? Why not! He was used to being with racehorses and unabashedly presuming that irrespective of his opening line the lass would be adequately impressed if not by his accent then by his opulence (they have plenty of that).
So I suspect an Indian Gene in the so-called British lad.

So playing Higgins I would say that our ‘British Lad’ was a second generation immigrant (by the third generation total integration takes place) with an Indian mother (still using Hindi at home) and father with some Arab lineage (British mother Arab father) still having the family jewels in his name.

Best of luck ‘My Fair Lady’

Maybe racehorses have really delicate ankles? That’s the only thing I can think of. Or maybe she was just thrilled he didn’t say, “Darling, you have ankles like a rhinoceros.” Did you get a good look at her ankles?