NORA.
It was very silly of me to want to do that.
HELMER.
What do you mean?
NORA.
I can’t hit upon anything that will do; everything I think of seems so silly and insignificant.
HELMER.
Does my little Nora acknowledge that at last?
NORA.
[standing behind his chair with her arms on the back of it]. Are you very busy, Torvald?
HELMER.
Well—
NORA.
What are all those papers?
HELMER.
Bank business.
NORA.
Already?
HELMER.
I have got authority from the retiring manager to undertake the necessary changes in the staff and in the rearrangement of the work; and I must make use of the Christmas week for that, so as to have everything in order for the new year.