Explain yourself more clearly; I don’t understand.
Nora.
I have waited so patiently all these eight years; for of course I saw clearly enough that miracles don’t happen every day. When this crushing blow threatened me, I said to myself so confidently, “Now comes the miracle!” When Krogstad’s letter lay in the box, it never for a moment occurred to me that you would think of submitting to that man’s conditions. I was convinced that you would say to him, “Make it known to all the world”; and that then——
Helmer.
Well? When I had given my own wife’s name up to disgrace and shame——?
Nora.
Then I firmly believed that you would come forward, take everything upon yourself, and say, “I am the guilty one.”
Helmer.
Nora——!
Nora.