Act 2
Cards (37)
- ‘The same room. In the corner of the piano the Christmas tree stands, stripped and disheveled, its candles burned to their sockets.’
- ‘No, it’s no one. Of course - No one’ll come today, it’s Christmas Day. Nor tomorrow. But perhaps - !’
- ‘Yes, but Anne-Marie, from now on I shan’t be able to spend so much time with them.’
- ‘A poor girl what’s got into trouble can’t afford to pick and choose. That good-for-nothing didn’t lift a finger.’
- ’Stupid, stupid! No one will come. I mustn‘t think about it. Brush this muff. Pretty gloves, pretty gloves! Don’t think about it, don’t think about it! One, two, three, four, five, six - (cries). Ah - they’re coming - !‘
- ‘His father was a frightful creature who kept mistresses and so on. As a result Dr Rank has been sickly ever since he was a child‘
- ‘When one has three children, one comes into contact with women who - well, who know about medical matters, and they tell one a thing or two.’
- ‘He’s Torvald’s oldest friend, and a good friend to me too. Dr Rank’s almost one of the family.’
- ‘When we were first married, he got quite jealous if I as much mentioned any of my old friends back home. So naturally, I stopped talking about them.’
- ‘In many ways you’re still a child; I’m a bit older than you and have a little more experience of the world.’
- ‘It’s much easier for a man to arrange these things than a woman - ‘
- ‘Your father wasn’t a man of unassailable reputation. But I am.’
- ‘If the rumour got about that the new vice president had allowed his wife to persuade him to change his mind-‘
- ‘My dear Nora, I forgive you for this anxiety. Though it is a bit of an insult to me.‘
- ‘When the real crisis comes, you will not find me lacking in strength or courage. I am man enough to bear the burden for us both.’
- ‘He said he’d do it. He will do it. He will do it, and nothing‘ll stop him. No, never that. If rather anything. There must be some escape - Some way out-!’
- ‘Within a month I may be rotting up there in the churchyard.’
- ‘And in every single family, in one way or another, the same merciless law of retribution is at work - ‘
- ‘My poor innocent spine must pay for all the fun my father had as a gay young lieutenant.’
- ‘I feel the same about Torvald as I did about papa.’
- ‘Oh you can’t frighten me. A pampered little pretty like you-‘
- ‘Have you forgotten that then your reputation will be in my hands?’
- ‘This evening I shall think of nothing but you- my poor, helpless little darling.’
- ‘Correct me, lead me, the way you always do.’
- ‘My child shall have her way.’
- ‘Now, now, now. Don't get so excited. Where’s my little songbird, the one I know?’
- ‘There’s nothing wrong is there? I mean, she isn’t - er - expecting - ?’
- ‘She just gets scared like a child sometimes’
- ‘Twenty-four and seven? Thirty-one hours to live.’
- ‘Your songbird is here!’
- 'Well, that wouldn't be the worst.'
- '(hugs her) Dear old Anne-Marie, you were a good mother to me'
- 'Yes, Torvald understands how to make a home attractive'
- 'Behind your husbands back?'
- 'Don't look at me with those frightened little eyes.'
- 'Helmer's a sensitive chap, and I know how he hates anything ugly.'
- 'Torvald loves me - he'd never hesitate for an instant to lay down his life for me'