Nora a Play Tr by Hf Lord Author:Henrik Ibsen General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Nora. Clearer than you could ever make me. Krogstad. Yes, such a bad lawyer as I am. Nora. What is it you want ? Krogstad. Only to see how you were getting on, Mrs. Helmer. I have been thinking about you all day long. A cashier, a disgraced newspaper writer, a -- in short, a creature like me, you know, has a little bit of what people call' heart.' Nora. Then show it; think of my little children. Krogstad. Did you and your husband think of mine ? But let's leave that alone. I only wanted to tell you that you needn't take this matter too seriously. I sha'n't be the first one to talk about it. Nora. No; to be sure. I knew you wouldn't be. Krogstad. It can be settled as amiably as possible. Nobody need know. It can remain among us three. Nora. My husband is never to know anything about it. Krogstad. How can you prevent that ? Can you pay off the debt, eh ? Nora. No, not at once. Krogstad. Or have you any means of raising the money in the next few days ? Nora. No means that I will make use of. Krogstad. And if you had, it would be no good to you now. If you stood here with ever so much money in your hand you wouldn't get your I. O. U. back from me. Nora. Tell me what you want to do with it. Krogstad. I only want to keep it, to have it in my own hands. No stranger shall hear anything of it. If you were to form any desperate resolution. . . Nora. That I shall do. Krogstad. If you should think of leaving your husband and children. .. " Nora. That I shall do. Krogstad. Or if you should think of doing something far worse.. . Nora. How do you know that ? Krogst...« less