Oh, you know I always like to have you here.

Rank.

That is just what led me astray. You are a riddle to me. It has often seemed to me as if you liked being with me almost as much as being with Helmer.

Nora.

Yes; don’t you see? There are people one loves, and others one likes to talk to.

Rank.

Yes—there’s something in that.

Nora.

When I was a girl, of course I loved papa best. But it always delighted me to steal into the servants’ room. In the first place they never lectured me, and in the second it was such fun to hear them talk.

Rank.