To be sure I do. However wretched I may be, I want to drag on as long as possible. All my patients, too, have the same mania. And it’s the same with people whose complaint is moral. At this very moment Helmer is talking to just such a moral incurable——

Mrs. Linden.

[Softly.] Ah!

Nora.

Whom do you mean?

Rank.

Oh, a fellow named Krogstad, a man you know nothing about—corrupt to the very core of his character. But even he began by announcing, as a matter of vast importance, that he must live.

Nora.

Indeed? And what did he want with Torvald?

Rank.