A Doll's House

together would be a real wedlock. Goodbye. [She goes out through the hall.]
Helmer [sinks down on a chair at the door and buries his face in his hands]. Nora! Nora! [Looks round, and rises.] Empty. She is gone. [A hope flashes across his mind.] The most wonderful thing of all--?

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.
Nora. It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

What do I care about tiresome Society? I am laughing at something quite different

But don't let us think of business; it is so tiresome

to be able to keep the house beautifully and have everything just as Torvald likes it

and earning money. It was like being a man.

Mrs. Linde. How much have

me as he is now; when my dancing and dressing-up and reciting have palled on him; then it may be a good thing to

Nora! (Goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.)

Is it my little squirrel bustling about?