[Absently.] I daresay. [Helmer takes his bunch of keys from his pocket and goes into the hall.] Torvald, what are you doing there?

Helmer.

I must empty the letter-box; it’s quite full; there will be no room for the newspapers to-morrow morning.

Nora.

Are you going to work to-night?

Helmer.

You know very well I am not.—Why, how is this? Some one has been at the lock.

Nora.

The lock——?

Helmer.