(He brings her gently into the room, in spite of her resistance.) Come along into the room you are catching cold standing there. Please, Torvald dear - please, please - only an hour more. I want to go upstairs again I don't want to leave so early. (hanging back in the doorway, and struggling with him). She is in an Italian costume with a large black shawl round her he is in evening dress, and a black domino which is flying open.) HELMER'S and NORA'S voices are heard outside a key is turned, and HELMER brings NORA almost by force into the hall. Linde first when Torvald worked too hard in the first year of their marriage and got sick and had to go to Italy to recover. What a difference! What a difference! Someone to work for and live for - a home to bring comfort into. (tidying up the room and laying her hat and cloak ready). The door between the room and the hall remains open.) I have never had such an amazing piece of good fortune in my life! (Goes out through the outer door. You must be quick and go! The dance is over we are not safe a moment longer. But there is one thing I can do in any case, and I shall do it at once. Very well, if you will take the responsibility. This unhappy secret must be enclosed they must have a complete understanding between them, which is impossible with all this concealment and falsehood going on. But twenty-four hours have elapsed since then, and in that time I have witnessed incredible things in this house. No, Nils, you must not recall your letter.īut, tell me, wasn't it for that very purpose that you asked me to meet you here? I will wait here till Helmer comes I will tell him he must give me my letter back - that it only concerns my dismissal - that he is not to read it. Nils, a woman who has once sold herself for another's sake, doesn't do it a second time. Is that what it all means? - that you want to save your friend at any cost? Tell me frankly. Your letter is lying in the letter-box now. I understand very well to what lengths a man like you might be driven by despair. Of course you are not aware what steps I have taken in the matter of the Helmers.Īnd in spite of that have you the courage to - ? Hush! The Tarantella! Go, go!ĭo you hear them up there? When that is over, we may expect them back. Thanks, thanks, Christine! Now I shall find a way to clear myself in the eyes of the world. Nils, I have faith in your real character - I can dare anything together with you. I want to be a mother to someone, and your children need a mother. You seemed to me to imply that with me you might have been quite another man.Ĭhristine, are you saying this deliberately? Yes, I am sure you are. Have you ever noticed anything of the sort in me?Ĭould you really do it? Tell me - do you know all about my past life?Īnd do you know what they think of me here?

Mrs linde