"Don't look at me like that. I'm not going to do anything against you. Do you think I want to hurt you? Don't you see?"
"It's no matter whether you do or not," Nora said in a hard tone.
"I want to tell you that I think I was wrong—long ago. I wasn't fair to you. I—"
"It's no matter now," Nora broke in again.
"Yes, it is. I want to say—"
"I don't want you to say anything!... I guess you were fair enough, you treated me all right. Anybody would have...."
She stopped and her lowering gaze shifted.
"Well, I just want to say that I feel I owe you a good deal. I realized it afterwards. The children.... I knew you'd really loved them—"
Nora shrank at that and bit her lip.
"It's no use talking, I don't want to talk about it," she cried. "I've been a bad woman, and that's all there is to it."