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KROGSTAD And if you had, it would not help you now. If you offered me ever so much money down, you should not get back your I.O.U. NORA Tell me what you want to do with it. KROGSTAD I only want to keep it-to have it in my possession. No outsider shall hear anything of it. So, if you have any desperate scheme in your headNORA What if I have? KROGSTAD If you should think of leaving your husband and childrenNORA What if I do? KROGSTAD Or if you should think of-something worseNORA How do you know that? KROGSTAD Put all that out of your head. NORA How did you know what I had in my mind? KROGSTAD Most of us think of that at first. I thought of it, too; but I hadn’t the courageNORA [Tonelessly.] Nor I. KROGSTAD [Relieved.] No, one hasn’t. You haven’t the courage either, have you? NORA I haven’t, I haven’t. KROGSTAD Besides, it would be very foolish.- Just one domestic storm, and it’s all over. I have a letter in my pocket for your husbandNORA Telling him everything? KROGSTAD Sparing you as much as possible. NORA [Quickly.] He must never read that letter. Tear it up. I will manage to get the money somehow KROGSTAD Pardon me, Mrs. Helmer, but I believe I told youNORA Oh, I’m not talking about the money I owe you. Tell me how much you demand from my husband-I will get it. KROGSTAD I demand no money from your husband. NORA What do you demand then? KROGSTAD I will tell you. I want to regain my footing in the world. I want to rise; and your husband shall help me to do it. For the last eighteen months my record has been spotless; I have been in bitter need all the time; but I was content to fight my way up, step by step. Now, I’ve been thrust down again, and I will not be satisfied with merely being reinstated as a matter of grace. I want to rise, I tell you. I must get into the Bank again, in a higher position than before. Your husband shall create a place on purpose for me-. NORA He will never do that! KROGSTAD He will do it; I know him-he won’t dare to show fight! And when he and I are together there, you shall soon see! Before a year is out I shall be the manager’s right hand. It won’t be Torvald Helmer, but Nils Krogstad, that manages the Joint Stock Bank. NORA That shall never be. KROGSTAD Perhaps you will-? NORA Now I have the courage for it. |
