NORA.
As I am now, I am no wife for you.
HELMER.
I have it in me to become a different man.
NORA.
Perhaps—if your doll is taken away from you.
HELMER.
But to part!—to part from you! No, no, Nora, I can’t understand that idea.
NORA.
[going out to the right]. That makes it all the more certain that it must be done. [She comes back with her cloak and hat and a small bag which she puts on a chair by the table.]
HELMER.
Nora, Nora, not now! Wait until tomorrow.
NORA.
[putting on her cloak]. I cannot spend the night in a strange man’s room.
HELMER.
But can’t we live here like brother and sister—?
NORA.
[putting on her hat]. You know very well that would not last long. [Puts the shawl round her.] Goodbye, Torvald. I won’t see the little ones. I know they are in better hands than mine. As I am now, I can be of no use to them.
HELMER.
But some day, Nora—some day?