Rank.

Oh, you’ll easily get over the loss. The absent are soon forgotten.

Nora.

[Looks at him anxiously.] Do you think so?

Rank.

People make fresh ties, and then——

Nora.

Who make fresh ties?

Rank.

You and Helmer will, when I am gone. You yourself are taking time by the forelock, it seems to me. What was that Mrs. Linden doing here yesterday?