A Doll's House

you think and talk like a heedless child.

Nora. Maybe. But you neither think nor talk like the man I could bind myself to.

You are an odd little soul. Very like your father. You always find some new way of wheedling money out of me, and, as soon as you have got it, it seems to melt in your hands.

together would be a real wedlock. Goodbye. [She goes out through the hall.]
Helmer [sinks down on a chair at the door and buries his face in his hands]. Nora! Nora! [Looks round, and rises.] Empty. She is gone. [A hope flashes across his mind.] The most wonderful thing of all--?

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.
Nora. It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald. But you would have it so. You and papa have committed a great sin against me. It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life.

Nora, you know what I think about that. No debt, no borrowing.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt