Act 3
Cards (62)
- ‘Not here yet. There’s not much time left. Please God he hasn’t-!’
- ‘We couldn’t meet at my place; my room had no separate entrance.’
- ‘Nils, suppose we two shipwrecked souls could join hands?’
- ‘Oh, Nils, give me something - someone - to work for.’
- ‘I know what despair can drive a man like you to.’
- ‘Helmer must know the truth. This secret of Nora’s must be revealed.’
- ’I won’t let this chance of happiness slip through my fingers.’
- ‘Helmer leads Nora almost forcibly into the hall.’
- ‘(Still in the doorway, resisting him) No, no, no - not in here! I want to go back upstairs. I don’t want to go so early.‘
- ‘Main thing is - she had a success - roaring success. Was I going to let her stay on after that and spoil the impression? No, thank you!‘
- ‘You ought to take up embroidery … It’s much prettier … But knitting, now - that’s an ugly business - can’t help it. Look - arms all huddled up - great clumsy needles going up and down - makes you look like a damn Chinaman.’
- ‘Well, we’ve got rid of her at last. Dreadful bore that woman is!‘
- ‘What, not look at my most treasured possession? At all the wonderful beauty that’s mine, mine alone, all mine.’
- ‘I pretend to myself that you’re my secret mistress, my clandestine little sweetheart, and that nobody knows that there’s anything at all between us.’
- ‘When I saw you dance the tarantella, like a huntress, a temptress, my blood grew hot, I couldn’t stand it any longer! That was why I seized you and dragged you down here with me - ’
- ‘What? Now, Nora, you’re joking with me. Don’t want, don’t want - ? Aren’t I your husband?’
- ‘Scientific experiment! Those are big words for my little Nora to use!’
- ‘Well, you never get anything in this life without paying for it.’
- ‘His suffering and loneliness seemed to provide a kind of dark background to the happy sunlight of our marriage.’
- ‘Often I wish some terrible danger might threaten you, so that I could offer my life and my blood, everything, for your sake.’
- ‘Wretched woman! What have you done?’
- ‘For eight whole years - she who was my joy and pride - a hypocrite, a liar - worse, worse - a criminal! Of the hideousness of it! Shame on you, shame!‘
- ‘Nora is silent and stares unblinkingly at him.’
- ‘All your father's recklessness and instability - be quiet! - I repeat, all your father's recklessness and instability he has handed on to you!‘
- ‘Now you have destroyed all my happiness. You have ruined my whole future.’
- ‘When I am gone from this world, you will be free.’
- ‘Oh don’t be melodramatic. Your father was always ready with that kind of remark.’
- ‘I am saved! Nora I am saved!’
- ‘Try to calm yourself and get your balance again, my frightened little songbird. Don’t be afraid. I have broad wings to shield you.‘
- ’You are safe here; I shall watch over you like a hunted dove in high I have snatched unharmed from the claws of the falcon.’
- ‘There is something indescribably wonderful and satisfying for a husband in knowing that he has forgiven his wife - forgiven her unreservedly, from the bottom of his heart.’
- ’You alarm me, Nora. I don’t understand you.’
- ‘No, don’t interrupt me. Just listen to what I have to say. You and I have got to face facts Torvald.’
- ‘Does it occur to you that this is the first hint we two, you and I, man and wife, have ever had a serious talk together?’
- ‘Did you expect me to drag you into all of my worries - worries you couldn’t possibly have helped me with?’
- ‘But my dear Nora, what on earth has that got to do with you?’
- ‘A great wrong has been done to me, Torvald. First by papa, and then by you.’
- ‘You never loved me. You just thought it was fun to be in love with me.’
- ‘When I lived with papa, he used to tell me what he thought about everything, so I never had any opinions but his.’
- ‘He called me his little doll, and played with me just the way I played with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house - ‘