KROGSTAD.
[at the door]. It is I, Mrs Helmer. [Mrs LINDE starts, trembles, and turns to the window.]
NORA.
[takes a step towards him, and speaks in a strained, low voice]. You? What is it? What do you want to see my husband about?
KROGSTAD.
Bank business—in a way. I have a small post in the Bank, and I hear your husband is to be our chief now—
NORA.
Then it is—
KROGSTAD.
Nothing but dry business matters, Mrs Helmer; absolutely nothing else.
NORA.
Be so good as to go into the study, then. [She bows indifferently to him and shuts the door into the hall; then comes back and makes up the fire in the stove.]
MRS LINDE.
Nora—who was that man?
NORA.
A lawyer, of the name of Krogstad.
MRS LINDE.
Then it really was he.
NORA.
Do you know the man?