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——?