Nora.

Don’t look at me in that way, Torvald.

Helmer.

I am not to look at my dearest treasure?—at all the loveliness that is mine, mine only, wholly and entirely mine?

Nora.

[Goes to the other side of the table.] You mustn’t say these things to me this evening.

Helmer.

[Following.] I see you have the tarantella still in your blood—-and that makes you all the more enticing. Listen! the other people are going now. [More softly.] Nora—soon the whole house will be still.

Nora.

Yes, I hope so.