NORA.
Alas, Torvald, you are not the man to educate me into being a proper wife for you.
HELMER.
And you can say that!
NORA.
And I—how am I fitted to bring up the children?
HELMER.
Nora!
NORA.
Didn’t you say so yourself a little while ago—that you dare not trust me to bring them up?
HELMER.
In a moment of anger! Why do you pay any heed to that?
NORA.
Indeed, you were perfectly right. I am not fit for the task. There is another task I must undertake first. I must try and educate myself—you are not the man to help me in that. I must do that for myself. And that is why I am going to leave you now.
HELMER.
[springing up]. What do you say?
NORA.
I must stand quite alone, if I am to understand myself and everything about me. It is for that reason that I cannot remain with you any longer.
HELMER.
Nora, Nora!