HELMER.
Speak plainly.
NORA.
Your skylark would chirp about in every room, with her song rising and falling—
HELMER.
Well, my skylark does that anyhow.
NORA.
I would play the fairy and dance for you in the moonlight, Torvald.
HELMER.
Nora—you surely don’t mean that request you made to me this morning?
NORA.
[going near him]. Yes, Torvald, I beg you so earnestly—
HELMER.
Have you really the courage to open up that question again?
NORA.
Yes, dear, you must do as I ask; you must let Krogstad keep his post in the bank.
HELMER.
My dear Nora, it is his post that I have arranged Mrs Linde shall have.
NORA.
Yes, you have been awfully kind about that; but you could just as well dismiss some other clerk instead of Krogstad.