Krogstad.
Why? What is it?
Mrs. Linden.
Don’t you hear the dancing overhead? As soon as that is over they will be here.
Krogstad.
Oh yes, I shall go. Nothing will come of this, after all. Of course, you don’t know the step I have taken against the Helmers.
Mrs. Linden.
Yes, Nils, I do know.
Krogstad.
And yet you have the courage to——?