Nora.
Punishment——?
Helmer.
But Krogstad didn’t do that. He evaded the law by means of tricks and subterfuges; and that is what has morally ruined him.
Nora.
Do you think that——?
Helmer.
Just think how a man with a thing of that sort on his conscience must be always lying and canting and shamming. Think of the mask he must wear even towards those who stand nearest him—towards his own wife and children. The effect on the children—that’s the most terrible part of it, Nora.
Nora.
Why?