I am sure I don’t look down upon any one; but it’s true I am both proud and glad when I remember that I was able to keep my mother’s last days free from care.

Nora.

And you’re proud to think of what you have done for your brothers, too.

Mrs. Linden.

Have I not the right to be?

Nora.

Yes indeed. But now let me tell you, Christina—I, too, have something to be proud and glad of.

Mrs. Linden.

I don’t doubt it. But what do you mean?

Nora.