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NORA You don’t know all yet. I have forged a nameMRS. LINDEN Good heavens! NORA Now, listen to me, Christina; you shall bear me witnessMRS. LINDEN How “witness”? What am I to-? NORA If I should go out of my mind-it might easily happenMRS. LINDEN Nora! NORA Or if anything else should happen to me-so that I couldn’t be here-! MRS. LINDEN Nora, Nora, you’re quite beside yourself! NORA In case any one wanted to take it all upon himself-the whole blame-you understandMRS. LINDEN Yes, yes; but how can you think-? NORA You shall bear witness that it’s not true, Christina. I’m not out of my mind at all; I know quite well what I’m saying; and I tell you nobody else knew anything about it; I did the whole thing, I myself. Remember that. MRS. LINDEN I shall remember. But I don’t understand what you meanNORA Oh, how should you? It’s the miracle coming to pass. MRS. LINDEN The miracle? NORA Yes, the miracle. But it’s so terrible, Christina; it mustn’t happen for all the world. MRS. LINDEN I shall go straight to Krogstad and talk to him. NORA Don’t; he’ll do you some harm. MRS. LINDEN Once he would have done anything for me. NORA He? MRS. LINDEN Where does he live? NORA Oh, how can I tell-? Yes- [Feels in her pocket.] Here’s his card. But the letter, the letter-! HELMER [Knocking outside.] Nora! NORA [Shrieks in terror.] Oh, what is it? What do you want? HELMER Well, well, don’t be frightened. We’re not coming in; you’ve bolted the door. Are you trying on your dress? NORA Yes, yes, I’m trying it on. It suits me so well, Torvald. MRS. LINDEN [Who has read the card.] Why, he lives close by here. NORA Yes, but it’s no use now. We are lost. The letter is there in the box. MRS. LINDEN And your husband has the key? NORA Always. MRS. LINDEN Krogstad must demand his letter back, unread. He must find some pretextNORA But this is the very time when Torvald generallyMRS. LINDEN Prevent him. Keep him occupied. I shall come back as quickly as I can. [She goes out hastily by the hall door. NORA [Opens HELMER’S door and peeps in.] Torvald! HELMER Well, may one come into one’s own room again at last? Come, Rank, we’ll have a look[In the doorway.] |
