HELMER.
Nora!

NORA.
Ah!—

HELMER.
What is this? Do you know what is in this letter?

NORA.
Yes, I know. Let me go! Let me get out!

HELMER.
[holding her back]. Where are you going?

NORA.
[trying to get free]. You shan’t save me, Torvald!

HELMER.
[reeling]. True? Is this true, that I read here? Horrible! No, no—it is impossible that it can be true.

NORA.
It is true. I have loved you above everything else in the world.

HELMER.
Oh, don’t let us have any silly excuses.

NORA.
[taking a step towards him]. Torvald—!