Helmer.
Forgery, that’s all. Don’t you know what that means?
Nora.
Mayn’t he have been driven to it by need?
Helmer.
Yes; or, like so many others, he may have done it in pure heedlessness. I am not so hard-hearted as to condemn a man absolutely for a single fault.
Nora.
No, surely not, Torvald!
Helmer.
Many a man can retrieve his character, if he owns his crime and takes the punishment.