NORA.
Tell me what purpose you mean to put it to.
KROGSTAD.
I shall only preserve it—keep it in my possession. No one who is not concerned in the matter shall have the slightest hint of it. So that if the thought of it has driven you to any desperate resolution—
NORA.
It has.
KROGSTAD.
If you had it in your mind to run away from your home—
NORA.
I had.
KROGSTAD.
Or even something worse—
NORA.
How could you know that?
KROGSTAD.
Give up the idea.
NORA.
How did you know I had thought of that?
KROGSTAD.
Most of us think of that at first. I did, too—but I hadn’t the courage.