1.1 ::- :=Helmer: a tile fell off a roof on to my head -- 1.1 ::- :=Nora: me something, you could -- you could -- 1.1 ::- :=Helmer: But, Nora -- 1.1 ::- :=Nora: Oh, but Torvald -- 1.1 ::- :=Nora: No, Torvald, I promise -- 1.1 ::- :=Nora: No, Torvald -- I promise you, honestly -- 1.1 ::- :=Helmer: eyes and your delicate little hands -- 1.2 ::- :=Nora: Good evening -- 1.2 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: It's been nine years -- nearly ten -- 1.2 ::- :=Nora: nanny. But you must tell me everything -- 1.2 ::- :=Nora: How relieved you must feel -- 1.2 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: job -- office work of some kind -- 1.2 ::- :=Nora: of getting down to anything serious -- 1.2 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: My dear -- 1.2 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: told me about all your difficulties -- 1.3 ::- :=Nora: if he hadn't managed to get down there -- 1.3 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: well -- your father provided the money -- 1.3 ::- :=Nora: Torvald and everyone else thinks. But -- 1.3 ::- :=Nora: sense, and knows how to be clever -- 1.3 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: But Nora, I simply don't understand -- 1.3 ::- :=Nora: When a girl's as pretty as I am -- 1.3 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: foolish if without his knowledge you -- 1.3 ::- :=Nora: somehow. And then I thought of a way -- 1.3 ::- :=Nora: gentleman had fallen in love with me -- 1.3 ::- :=Nora: be for me. It's someone for Torvald -- 1.3 ::- :=Maid: -- seeing as the doctor's with him -- 1.3 ::- :=Krogstad: husband is to become our new chief -- 1.3 ::- :=Rank: in with Helmer at this very moment -- 1.4 ::- :=Helmer: Christine -- ? Forgive me, but I don't think -- 1.4 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: Well, I didn't really -- 1.4 ::- :=Nora: her even more than she knows already -- 1.4 ::- :=Helmer: I may be able to find some job for you -- 1.4 ::- :=Helmer: I'm afraid I must ask you to excuse me -- 1.4 ::- :=Nora: here -- I'm afraid we can't offer to -- 1.5 ::- :=Krogstad: Excuse me, Mrs. Helmer -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: want? I can't give you anything today -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: Oh, yes. Yes, I suppose so; though -- 1.5 ::- :=Krogstad: I saw your husband cross the street -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: Yes, she is. But I still don't see -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: before offending someone who -- hm -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: But I assure you -- 1.5 ::- :=Krogstad: Oh? I thought you just said -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: I think I did hear something -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: me in the most dreadful unpleasantness -- 1.5 ::- :=Krogstad: I promised to find that sum for you -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: Yes, I think so -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: Problem? I don't see -- 1.5 ::- :=Nora: What? I don't understand -- 1.6 ::- :=Nora: I'll sing for you, dance for you -- 1.6 ::- :=Nora: Yes, Torvald. But -- 1.6 ::- :=Helmer: Oh -- 1.6 ::- :=Nora: Then that's why this poor man Krogstad -- 2.1 ::- :=Nora: presents, poor little dears. But -- 2.1 ::- :=Nora: now it's all so torn, I don't know -- 2.1 ::- :=Nora: since he was a child -- you understand -- 2.1 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: yours who was going to give you money -- 2.1 ::- :=Nora: No, no one. But -- 2.1 ::- :=Nora: I'm sure that if I ever did ask him -- 2.1 ::- :=Nora: sure that if I did speak to Dr. Rank -- 2.1 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: that's what I told you yesterday. But -- 2.1 ::- :=Nora: to arrange these things than a woman -- 2.2 ::- :=Helmer: at these. I've been down to the bank -- 2.2 ::- :=Nora: really prettily to grant her a wish -- 2.2 ::- :=Nora: skylark would sing in every room -- 2.2 ::- :=Helmer: in a word for him, you expect me to -- 2.2 ::- :=Nora: I'm so dreadfully frightened of him -- 2.2 ::- :=Helmer: to persuade him to change his mind -- 2.2 ::- :=Helmer: myself to ignore his moral obloquies -- 2.2 ::- :=Nora: of course you're not. That's just why -- 2.2 ::- :=Helmer: The whole burden, I say -- 2.3 ::- :=Rank: to visit me when I'm in the hospital -- 2.3 ::- :=Nora: Oh but, Dr. Rank -- 2.3 ::- :=Rank: law of retribution is at work -- 2.3 ::- :=Rank: Hm -- 2.3 ::- :=Rank: One finds replacements, and then -- 2.3 ::- :=Rank: When I have moved on, this lady will -- 2.3 ::- :=Rank: Hm -- 2.3 ::- :=Rank: And now to have to leave it all -- 2.3 ::- :=Nora: Suppose I were to ask you to -- ? No -- 2.3 ::- :=Nora: To give me proof of your friendship -- 2.3 ::- :=Nora: mean -- to do me a very great service -- 2.3 ::- :=Nora: an instant to lay down his life for me -- 2.3 ::- :=Rank: Nora -- 2.3 ::- :=Nora: tell me. That was quite unnecessary -- 2.3 ::- :=Nora: it specially -- Torvald mustn't know -- 2.3 ::- :=Nora: study -- keep him talking for a bit -- 2.4 ::- :=Maid: Yes, madam, he came up the back way -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: I can do to you, and yet he dares to -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: Helmer to show that much courage -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: Yes, a bad lawyer like me -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: thinking of doing anything desperate -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: Such as running away -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: Or anything more desperate -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: first. I did. But I hadn't the courage -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: a letter in my pocket here addressed to your husband -- 2.4 ::- :=Nora: it up. I'll find the money somehow -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: Mrs. Helmer, I thought I'd explained -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: going to create a new job for me -- 2.4 ::- :=Krogstad: me. A pampered little pretty like you -- 2.5 ::- :=Nora: happened. I've committed a forgery -- 2.5 ::- :=Nora: my mind -- and it might easily happen -- 2.5 ::- :=Nora: me -- so that I wasn't here any longer -- 2.5 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: right. But I simply don't understand -- 2.5 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: back unread. He must find some excuse -- 2.5 ::- :=Nora: opens the box at just about this time -- 2.5 ::- :=Helmer: there's just one thing I must see to -- 2.5 ::- :=Nora: -- don't even open the letter-box -- 2.5 ::- :=Helmer: you're still worried about that fellow -- 2.5 ::- :=Helmer: night, when your dance is over -- 2.5 ::- :=Helmer: a child sometimes -- I told you before -- 3.1 ::- :=Krogstad: me as you do! Oh -- but I'd forgotten -- 3.1 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: Quite sure. But -- 3.1 ::- :=Krogstad: and that I don't want him to read it -- 3.1 ::- :=Krogstad: But one thing I can do -- and at once -- 3.2 ::- :=Helmer: But my dearest Nora -- 3.2 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: Oh, yes, indeed -- 3.2 ::- :=Mrs. Linde: Yes, I'm sure -- 3.2 ::- :=Helmer: you and dragged you down here with me -- 3.2 ::- :=Rank: as one can. The wine was excellent -- 3.2 ::- :=Rank: You must go as the Spirit of Happiness -- 3.2 ::- :=Rank: appear as her normal, everyday self -- 3.3 ::- :=Helmer: Here's a broken hairpin. Nora, it's yours -- 3.3 ::- :=Helmer: I want to be with you, my darling wife -- 3.3 ::- :=Nora: Torvald -- 3.4 ::- :=Helmer: But, my dear Nora -- 3.4 ::- :=Helmer: does this mean? You look quite drawn -- 3.4 ::- :=Nora: Then I came here to live in your house -- 3.4 ::- :=Nora: Christine will put me up for tonight -- 3.5 ::- :=Helmer: You've no experience of the world -- 3.5 ::- :=Nora: the world." And when he had done this -- 3.5 ::- :=Helmer: my wife's name to shame and scandal -- 3.5 ::- :=Helmer: But at least you must let me send you -- 2.3 ::-I :=Nora: Dr. Rank, I can't. It's far too much --I want your help and advice, and I want 2.4 ::-JUST :=Krogstad: --just give up the idea. 3.5 ::-PERHAPS :=Helmer: you have some moral feelings left? Or --perhaps you haven't? Well, answer me. 1.1 ::A :=Porter: A shilling. 1.1 ::A :=Nora: HereUs half a crown. No, keep it. 1.1 ::A :=Nora: surely we can let ourselves go a little this year! ItUs the first Christmas 1.1 ::A :=Nora: Oh yes, Torvald, we can be a little extravagant now. CanUt we? Just 1.1 ::A :=Nora: little extravagant now. CanUt we? Just a tiny bit? YouUve got a big salary now, 1.1 ::A :=Nora: CanUt we? Just a tiny bit? YouUve got a big salary now, and youUre going to make 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: Nora! What a little spendthrift you are! Suppose I were 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: Christmas, and then on New Year's Eve a tile fell off a roof on to my head -- 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: then on New Year's Eve a tile fell off a roof on to my head -- 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: Oh, Nora, Nora, how like a woman! No, but seriously, Nora, you know 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: about this. No debts! Never borrow! A home that is founded on debts can never 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: that is founded on debts can never be a place of freedom and beauty. We two have 1.1 ::A :=Nora: here are new clothes for Ivar -- and a sword. And a horse and trumpet for Bob. 1.1 ::A :=Nora: clothes for Ivar -- and a sword. And a horse and trumpet for Bob. And a doll and 1.1 ::A :=Nora: And a horse and trumpet for Bob. And a doll and a cradle for Emmy -- they're nothing 1.1 ::A :=Nora: and trumpet for Bob. And a doll and a cradle for Emmy -- they're nothing much, 1.1 ::A :=Nora: much, but she'll pull them apart in a few day. And some bits of material and 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: deny it, Nora dear. The squanderbird's a pretty little creature, but she gets through 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: what an expensive pet she is for a man to keep. 1.1 ::A :=Nora: For shame! How can you say such a thing? I save every penny I can. 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: You're a funny little creature. Just like your father 1.1 ::A :=Nora: No, how can you think such a thing? 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: Not a tiny little digression into a pastry s 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: Not a tiny little digression into a pastry shop? 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: Not just a wee jam tart? 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: Not a little nibble at a macaroon? 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: Not a little nibble at a macaroon? 1.1 ::A :=Helmer: Yes, it's a wonderful thing to know that one's position 1.1 ::A :=Nora: Yes, it's almost like a miracle. 1.1 ::A :=Nora: longer? Oh, it's really all just like a miracle. Now, I'm going to tell you what 1.1 ::A :=Nora: the doorbell. Someone's coming. What a bore. 1.2 ::A :=Maid: A lady's called, madam. A stranger. 1.2 ::A :=Maid: A lady's called, madam. A stranger. 1.2 ::A :=Nora: No, I'm afraid I -- Yes, wait a minute -- surely -- Why, Christine! Is 1.2 ::A :=Nora: these last eight years have been such a happy time for me! So you've come to town? 1.2 ::A :=Nora: was just at first that -- you've got a little paler, though, Christine. And perhaps 1.2 ::A :=Nora: paler, though, Christine. And perhaps a bit thinner. 1.2 ::A :=Nora: Yes, perhaps a little older. Just a tiny bit. Not much. 1.2 ::A :=Nora: Yes, perhaps a little older. Just a tiny bit. Not much. Oh, but how thoughtless 1.2 ::A :=Nora: Poor Christine, you've become a widow. 1.2 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Not even a feeling of loss or sorrow. 1.2 ::A :=Nora: Yes, isn't it? Being a lawyer is so uncertain, you know, especially 1.2 ::A :=Nora: in the New Year, and he'll be getting a big salary, and lots of percentages too. 1.2 ::A :=Nora: we want. Oh, Christine, it's such a relief! I feel so happy! Well, I mean, 1.2 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: yet? When we were at school you were a terrible little spendthrift. 1.2 ::A :=Nora: The doctors said he'd have to go to a warmer climate. 1.2 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Yes, you spent a whole year in Italy, didn't you? 1.2 ::A :=Nora: of course we had to do it. Oh, it was a marvelous trip! And it saved Torvald's 1.2 ::A :=Nora: Two hundred and fifty pounds. That's a lot of money, you know. 1.2 ::A :=Nora: Fit as a fiddle! 1.2 ::A :=Nora: once every day. No, Torvald hasn't had a moment's illness since we went away. And 1.2 ::A :=Nora: I. Oh God, oh God, Christine, isn't it a wonderful thing to be alive and happy! 1.2 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: make ends meet somehow, so I started a little shop, and a little school, and anything 1.2 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: so I started a little shop, and a little school, and anything else I could 1.2 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: just one endless slog for me, without a moment's rest. But now it's over, Nora. 1.2 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: occupy my mind. If only I could get a regular job -- office work of some kind 1.2 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: work of yours -- well, really -- ! You're a child, Nora. 1.2 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: I think I have a right to be. 1.3 ::A :=Nora: Papa didn't give us a penny. It was I who found the money? 1.3 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: But Nora, how could you? Did you win a lottery or something? 1.3 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Well, a wife can't borrow money without her husband's 1.3 ::A :=Nora: Ah, but when a wife has a little business sense, and knows 1.3 ::A :=Nora: Ah, but when a wife has a little business sense, and knows how to 1.3 ::A :=Nora: have got it from an admirer. When a girl's as pretty as I am -- 1.3 ::A :=Nora: was in danger and that only going to a warm climate could save him. Do you suppose 1.3 ::A :=Nora: frivolous, and that it was his duty as a husband not to pander to my moods and caprices 1.3 ::A :=Nora: saved somehow. And then I thought of a way -- 1.3 ::A :=Nora: And besides -- he's so proud of being a man -- it'd be so painful and humiliating 1.3 ::A :=Nora: am I? Mind you, all this has caused me a frightful lot of worry. It hasn't been 1.3 ::A :=Nora: instalments and interest, and they're a terrible problem to cope with. So I've 1.3 ::A :=Nora: to cope with. So I've had to scrape a little here and save a little there as 1.3 ::A :=Nora: had to scrape a little here and save a little there as best I can. I haven't been 1.3 ::A :=Nora: never noticed. But it made me a bit sad sometimes, because it's lovely 1.3 ::A :=Nora: income. Last winter I managed to get a lot of copying to do. So I shut myself 1.3 ::A :=Nora: money. It was almost like being a man. 1.3 ::A :=Nora: and then perhaps we'll be able to take a little trip somewhere. I shall be able 1.3 ::A :=Nora: see the sea again. Oh, yes, yes, it's a wonderful thing to be alive and happy! 1.3 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: You've a visitor. Perhaps I'd better go. 1.3 ::A :=Maid: Excuse me, madam, a gentleman's called who says he wants to 1.3 ::A :=Krogstad: Business -- you might call it. I hold a minor post in the bank, and I hear your 1.3 ::A :=Nora: A lawyer called Krogstad. 1.3 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: to know him -- some years ago. He was a solicitor's clerk in our town, for a w 1.3 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: a solicitor's clerk in our town, for a while. 1.3 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Is he a widower now? 1.3 ::A :=Nora: Yes, with a lot of children. Ah, now it's alight. 1.3 ::A :=Rank: don't see me out. I'll go and have a word with your wife. Oh, I beg your pardon. 1.3 ::A :=Rank: Ah! A name I have often heard in this house. 1.3 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: No, I'm just a little run down. 1.3 ::A :=Rank: come to town to cure yourself by a round of parties? 1.3 ::A :=Rank: Yes, people do seem to regard it as a necessity. 1.3 ::A :=Rank: who are morally sick, too. There's a moral cripple in with Helmer at this very 1.3 ::A :=Rank: Oh, a lawyer fellow called Krogstad -- you wouldn't 1.3 ::A :=Rank: off by announcing, as thought it were a matter of enormous importance, that he 1.3 ::A :=Rank: in your part of the world you too have a species of human being that spends its 1.3 ::A :=Rank: moral corruption? And when they find a case they give him some nice, comfortable 1.3 ::A :=Rank: position so that they can keep a good watch on him. The healthy ones just 1.3 ::A :=Rank: that's turning human society into a hospital. 1.3 ::A :=Nora: do I care about society? I think it's a bore. I was laughing at something else 1.3 ::A :=Nora: many people. Dr. Rank, would you like a small macaroon? 1.3 ::A :=Nora: too, Christine. and I'll have one too. Just a little one. Two at the most. Yes, 1.4 ::A :=Helmer: Ah. A childhood friend of my wife's, I presu 1.4 ::A :=Nora: -- Torvald, you will, won't you? Do a little something to help Christine? For 1.4 ::A :=Helmer: that shouldn't be impossible. You are a widow, I take it, Mrs. Linde? 1.4 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Yes, quite a bit. 1.4 ::A :=Helmer: You've come at a lucky moment, Mrs. Linde. 1.4 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Yes, I must start to look round for a room. 1.4 ::A :=Nora: It's such a nuisance we're so cramped here -- I'm afraid 1.4 ::A :=Nora: That's splendid. You gave Emmy and Bob a ride on the sledge? What, both together? 1.4 ::A :=Nora: What, both together? I say! What a clever boy you are, Ivar! Oh, let me hold 1.4 ::A :=Nora: you are, Ivar! Oh, let me hold her for a moment, Anne-Marie! My sweet little baby 1.4 ::A :=Nora: some hot coffee on the stove. What? A big dog ran after you? But he didn't bite 1.4 ::A :=Nora: it's nothing nice. Come on, let's play a game. What shall we play? Hide and seek. 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: A word with you. 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: Christmas Eve. Whether or not you have a merry Christmas depends on you. 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: There's something else. You have a moment to spare? 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: With a lady. 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: so bold as to ask: was not that lady a Mrs. Linde? 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: She is a good friend of yours, is she not? 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: you would. Well then, may I ask you a straight question: is Mrs. Linde to be 1.5 ::A :=Nora: Oh, one has a little influence, you know. Just because 1.5 ::A :=Nora: you know. Just because one's a woman it doesn't necessarily mean that 1.5 ::A :=Nora: mean that -- When one is in a humble position, Mr. Krogstad, one should 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: You're a bold woman, Mrs. Helmer. 1.5 ::A :=Nora: That'd be a filthy trick! This secret that is my pride 1.5 ::A :=Nora: that he should hear about it in such a filthy, beastly way -- hear about it from 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: Listen, Mrs. Helmer. Either you've a bad memory or else you know very little 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: Exactly. But then I added a few lines naming your father as security 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: we were speaking about -- that was a difficult time for you just then, wasn't 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: to confirm it. And that leaves me with a curious little problem -- which I simply 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: the second of October. Isn't that a curious little problem, Mrs. Helmer? Can 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: October" and the year are written in a hand which is not your father's, but which 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: which I seem to know. Well, there's a simple explanation to that. Your father 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: Mrs. Helmer, do you realize this is a dangerous admission? 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: May I ask you a question? Why didn't you send this paper 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: wiser to have given up your idea of a holiday. 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: you that it is no bigger nor worse a crime than the one I once committed, and 1.5 ::A :=Nora: to believe that you would have taken a risk like that to save your wife's lif 1.5 ::A :=Nora: I don't believe that. Hasn't a daughter the right to shield her father 1.5 ::A :=Nora: when he's old and dying? Hasn't a wife the right to save her husband's life? 1.5 ::A :=Nora: to know about that, you're meant to be a lawyer, aren't you? You can't be a very 1.5 ::A :=Nora: be a lawyer, aren't you? You can't be a very good lawyer, Mr. Krogstad. 1.5 ::A :=Krogstad: If I get thrown into the gutter for a second time, I shall take you with me. 1.6 ::A :=Nora: just now. Go back to the nursery. I've a lot to do. Go away, my darlings, go away. 1.6 ::A :=Nora: quite right -- Krogstad was here for a few minutes. 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: he's been here and asked you to put in a good word for him. 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: And you were ready to enter into such a conspiracy? Talking to a man like that, 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: into such a conspiracy? Talking to a man like that, and making him promises 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: songbird must never do that again. A songbird must have a clean beak to sing 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: do that again. A songbird must have a clean beak to sing with; otherwise she'll 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: Independent's in trouble and needs a man to rescue her, does she? 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: I'm not so heartless as to condemn a man for an isolated action. 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: Just think how a man with that load on his conscience must 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: and dissembling; how he must wear a mask even in the presence of those who 1.6 ::A :=Helmer: breath that the children draw in such a house contains the germs of evil. 2.1 ::A :=Nora: Oh, I wish I could tear them into a million pieces! 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: Why, madam! They'll be all right. Just a little patience. 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: In this dreadful weather? You'll catch a chill, madam. 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: When I had the chance of such a good job? A poor girl what's got into trouble 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: I had the chance of such a good job? A poor girl what's got into trouble can't 2.1 ::A :=Nurse: That good-for-nothing didn't life a finger. 2.1 ::A :=Nora: Dear old Anne-Marie, you were a good mother to me. 2.1 ::A :=Nora: Look at this. There's going to be a fancy dress ball tomorrow night upstairs 2.1 ::A :=Nora: and Torvald wants me to go as a Neapolitan fisher-girl and dance the tarantella. 2.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: I say, are you going to give a performance? 2.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: up tomorrow, Nora? I must pop over for a moment to see how you look. Oh, but I've 2.1 ::A :=Nora: usual. You ought to have come to town a little earlier, Christine . . . Yes, Torvald 2.1 ::A :=Nora: . . . Yes, Torvald understands how to make a home look attractive. 2.1 ::A :=Nora: it was very noticeable. But he's got a terrible disease; he's got spinal tuberculosis, 2.1 ::A :=Nora: tuberculosis, poor man. His father was a frightful creature who kept mistresses 2.1 ::A :=Nora: who kept mistresses and so on. As a result Dr. Rank has been sickly ever since 2.1 ::A :=Nora: Rank has been sickly ever since he was a child -- you understand -- 2.1 ::A :=Nora: medical matters, and they tell one a thing or two. 2.1 ::A :=Nora: day. He's Torvald's oldest friend, and a good friend to me too. Dr. Rank's almost 2.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Nora. In many ways you're still a child; I'm a bit older than you and have 2.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: In many ways you're still a child; I'm a bit older than you and have a little more 2.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: I'm a bit older than you and have a little more experience of the world. There's 2.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: But how dare a man of his education be so forward? 2.1 ::A :=Nora: your mind? How could you imagine such a thing? A friend, someone who comes here 2.1 ::A :=Nora: How could you imagine such a thing? A friend, someone who comes here every day! 2.1 ::A :=Nora: No, of course not. I've never for a moment dreamed of -- anyway, he hadn't 2.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Well, I think that was a lucky thing for you, Nora dear. 2.1 ::A :=Nora: It's much easier for a man to arrange these things than a woman 2.1 ::A :=Nora: for a man to arrange these things than a woman -- 2.1 ::A :=Nora: Oh, bosh. When you've completely repaid a debt, you get your I.O.U. back, don't 2.1 ::A :=Nora: And you can tear it into a thousand pieces and burn the filthy, beastly 2.1 ::A :=Nora: you mind going into the nursery for a few minutes? Torvald can't bear to see 2.2 ::A :=Helmer: Yes, that was quite a bright idea of mine, wasn't it? 2.2 ::A :=Nora: asked you really prettily to grant her a wish -- 2.2 ::A :=Nora: I'd turn myself into a little fairy and dance for you in the moonlight, 2.2 ::A :=Helmer: you thoughtlessly promised to put in a word for him, you expect me to -- 2.2 ::A :=Helmer: But my dear little Nora, there's a considerable difference between your father 2.2 ::A :=Helmer: father and me. Your father was not a man of unassailable reputation. But I am; 2.2 ::A :=Helmer: gets her way -- ! Do you expect me to make a laughing-stock of myself before my 2.2 ::A :=Helmer: this letter downstairs at once. Find a messenger and see that he delivers it. 2.2 ::A :=Helmer: forgive you this anxiety. Though it is a bit of an insult to me. Oh, but it is! 2.2 ::A :=Helmer: be frightened by the vindictiveness of a depraved hack journalist? But I forgive 2.3 ::A :=Nora: Well, it's rather a curious expression. Is something going 2.3 ::A :=Rank: I've been expecting to happen for a long time. But I didn't think it would 2.3 ::A :=Rank: mine, and I find I am bankrupt. Within a month I may be rotting up there in the 2.3 ::A :=Nora: Ugh, what a nasty way to talk! 2.3 ::A :=Rank: to make. When that's done I'll have a pretty accurate idea of when the final 2.3 ::A :=Rank: is likely to begin. I want to ask you a favour. Helmer's a sensitive chap, and 2.3 ::A :=Rank: I want to ask you a favour. Helmer's a sensitive chap, and I know how he hates 2.3 ::A :=Rank: I'll send you my visiting card with a black cross on it, and then you'll know 2.3 ::A :=Nora: evening. And I did hope you'd be in a good mood. 2.3 ::A :=Rank: must pay for the fun my father had as a gay young lieutenant. 2.3 ::A :=Rank: Especially a poor spine that never got any pleasure 2.3 ::A :=Rank: You're a worse little rogue than I thought. 2.3 ::A :=Nora: Who will find a replacement? 2.3 ::A :=Rank: when I am gone. You seem to have made a start already, haven't you? What was this 2.3 ::A :=Nora: the soles. Oh well, I suppose you can look a bit higher if you want to. 2.3 ::A :=Rank: I can't really give you a qualified opinion on that. 2.3 ::A :=Rank: token of gratitude behind; hardly even a passing sense of loss; only an empty place, 2.3 ::A :=Nora: No, I mean -- to do me a very great service -- 2.3 ::A :=Rank: that before I go. I shall never have a better opportunity . . . Well, Nora, now 2.3 ::A :=Nora: Honestly. Well, upon my word you are a fine gentleman, Dr. Rank. Aren't you ashamed 2.3 ::A :=Rank: That was what misled me. You're a riddle to me, you know. I'd often felt 2.3 ::A :=Nora: in his study -- keep him talking for a bit -- 2.4 ::A :=Nora: But didn't you tell him I had a visitor? 2.4 ::A :=Nora: mustn't tell anyone about this. It's a surprise for my husband. 2.4 ::A :=Krogstad: Yes, a bad lawyer like me -- 2.4 ::A :=Krogstad: It'd be a stupid thing to do anyway. Once the first 2.4 ::A :=Krogstad: little domestic explosion is over . . . I've got a letter in my pocket here addressed 2.4 ::A :=Krogstad: up. Your husband's going to create a new job for me -- 2.4 ::A :=Krogstad: I know him. He won't dare to risk a scandal. And once I'm in there with him, 2.4 ::A :=Krogstad: in there with him, you'll see! Within a year I'll be his right-hand man. It'll 2.4 ::A :=Krogstad: Oh, you can't frighten me. A pampered little pretty like you -- 2.5 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: you? You look as though you'd seen a ghost! 2.5 ::A :=Nora: know what's happened. I've committed a forgery -- 2.5 ::A :=Nora: Oh, how could you understand? A -- miracle -- is about to happen. 2.5 ::A :=Nora: Yes. A miracle. But it's so frightening, Christine. 2.5 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Once upon a time he'd have done anything for my sa 2.5 ::A :=Nora: Oh, how should I know -- ? Oh yes, wait a moment -- ! Here's his card. But the 2.5 ::A :=Helmer: Well, may a man enter his own drawing-room again? Come 2.5 ::A :=Nora: of business -- I won't even let you touch a pen. Promise me, Torvald? 2.5 ::A :=Helmer: from the way you're behaving, there's a letter from him already lying there. 2.5 ::A :=Helmer: I say! What's this, a banquet? 2.5 ::A :=Nora: you too, Dr. Rank. I'll be with you in a minute. Christine, you must help me put 2.5 ::A :=Helmer: dear chap. She just gets scared like a child sometimes -- I told you before - 2.5 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: He'll be back tomorrow evening. I left a note for him. 2.5 ::A :=Nora: now. Anyway, it's wonderful really, in a way -- sitting here and waiting for the 2.5 ::A :=Nora: in and join them. I'll be with you in a moment. 3.1 ::A :=Krogstad: I found a note from you at my lodgings. What does 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Well, Krogstad. You and I must have a talk together. 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: We have a great deal to discuss. 3.1 ::A :=Krogstad: It's the old story, isn't it -- a woman chucking a man because something 3.1 ::A :=Krogstad: story, isn't it -- a woman chucking a man because something better turns up? 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: You mustn't forget I had a helpless mother to take care of, and two 3.1 ::A :=Krogstad: under my feet. Look at me. Now I am a shipwrecked man, clinging to a spar. 3.1 ::A :=Krogstad: I am a shipwrecked man, clinging to a spar. 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Then itUs taught you a useful lesson. But surely you still believe 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: You said you were like a shipwrecked man clinging to a spar. 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: like a shipwrecked man clinging to a spar. 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Castaways have a better chance of survival together than 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: now that with me you might have become a different person. 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: I need someone to be a mother to; and your children need a mother. 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: be a mother to; and your children need a mother. And you and I need each other. 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: I know what despair can drive a man like you to. 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Nils, a woman who has sold herself once for the 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: at first, when I was frightened. But a day has passed since then, and in that 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: must be revealed. They must come to a full understanding; there must be an end 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: What a change! Oh, what a change! Someone to work 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: What a change! Oh, what a change! Someone to work for -- to live 3.1 ::A :=Mrs. Linde: Someone to work for -- to live for! A home to bring joy into! I won't let this 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: Well, take a good look at her. She's worth looking at, 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: She dances her tarantella -- makes a roaring success -- and very well deserved 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: very well deserved -- though possibly a trifle too realistic -- more so than was 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: mind that. Main thing is -- she had a success -- roaring success. Was I going 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: Capricienne, what? -- under my arm -- a swift round of the ballroom, a curtsey 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: arm -- a swift round of the ballroom, a curtsey to the company, and, as they say 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: your right hand and go in and out in a slow, easy movement -- like this. I am 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: up and down -- makes you look like a damned Chinaman. I say, that really was 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: Chinaman. I say, that really was a magnificent champagne they served us. 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: Not a bit. On the contrary, I feel extraordinarily 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: my little songbird's talking just like a real big human being. I say, did you notice 3.2 ::A :=Nora: Oh? Was he? I didn't have a chance to speak with him. 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: did. But I haven't seen him in such a jolly mood for ages. I say, it's nice to 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: alone with you. Upon my word, you're a distractingly beautiful young woman. 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: I saw you dance the tarantella, like a huntress, a temptress, my blood grew hot, 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: dance the tarantella, like a huntress, a temptress, my blood grew hot, I couldn't 3.2 ::A :=Rank: It's me. May I come in for a moment? 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: Oh, what does he want now? Wait a moment. Well! Nice of you not to go by 3.2 ::A :=Rank: dear rooms, how well I know them. What a happy, peaceful home you two have. 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: You seemed to be having a pretty happy time yourself upstairs. 3.2 ::A :=Nora: Torvald drank a lot of champagne too, this evening. 3.2 ::A :=Rank: Well, why shouldn't a man have a merry evening after a well-spent 3.2 ::A :=Rank: Well, why shouldn't a man have a merry evening after a well-spent day? 3.2 ::A :=Rank: a man have a merry evening after a well-spent day? 3.2 ::A :=Nora: Dr. Rank -- you've been carrying out a scientific experiment today, haven't y 3.2 ::A :=Rank: So aren't I entitled to have a merry evening after that? 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: You try to think of a costume that'll convey that. 3.2 ::A :=Helmer: Well, that's a funny idea. 3.2 ::A :=Rank: There's a big, black hat -- haven't you heard of 3.2 ::A :=Rank: what I came for. Helmer, give me a cigar. One of your black Havanas. 3.2 ::A :=Nora: Let me give you a light. 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: -- ? Surely not one of the maids? Here's a broken hairpin. Nora, it's yours 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: There's a black cross above his name. Look. Rather 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: now he's going to slink away and hide like a wounded beast. 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: He was so much a part of our life. I can't realize that 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: and loneliness seemed to provide a kind of dark background to the happy sunlight 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: Oh, what a dreadful awakening? For eight whole years 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: -- she who was my joy and my pride -- a hypocrite, a liar -- worse, worse -- a 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: my joy and my pride -- a hypocrite, a liar -- worse, worse -- a criminal! Oh, 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: a hypocrite, a liar -- worse, worse -- a criminal! Oh, the hideousness of it! Shame 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: to contemplate! I am in the power of a man who is completely without scruples. 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: and ruin simply for the weakness of a woman. 3.3 ::A :=Maid: A letter for madam. 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: he is sorry for what has happened -- a happy accident has changed his life -- 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: shall merely regard the whole business as a dream. There. Now they're destroyed. 3.3 ::A :=Nora: Yes. It's been a hard fight. 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: You have loved me as a wife should love her husband. It was simply 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: you. I shall guide you. I would not be a true man if your feminine helplessness 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: safe here; I shall watch over you like a hunted dove which I have snatched unharmed 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: you don't understand what goes on in a husband's heart. There is something indescribably 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: wonderful and satisfying for a husband in knowing that he has forgiven 3.3 ::A :=Helmer: that she has become his property in a double sense; he has, as it were, brought 3.4 ::A :=Nora: Sit down here, Torvald. You and I have a lot to talk about. 3.4 ::A :=Nora: Sit down. It's going to take a long time. I've a lot to say to you. 3.4 ::A :=Nora: It's going to take a long time. I've a lot to say to you. 3.4 ::A :=Nora: you and I, man and wife, have ever had a serious talk together? 3.4 ::A :=Nora: first met -- we have never exchanged a serious word on a serious subject. 3.4 ::A :=Nora: have never exchanged a serious word on a serious subject. 3.4 ::A :=Nora: point. You have never understood me. A great wrong has been done to me, Torvald. 3.4 ::A :=Helmer: Nora, what kind of a way is this to talk? 3.4 ::A :=Helmer: What kind of a way is that to describe our marriage? 3.4 ::A :=Nora: I don't really know -- I think it was a little of both -- first one and then the 3.4 ::A :=Nora: it's as if I've been living here like a pauper, from hand to mouth. I performed 3.4 ::A :=Nora: wanted it. You and Papa have done me a great wrong. It's your fault that I have 3.4 ::A :=Nora: our home has never been anything but a playroom. I've been your doll-wife, just 3.4 ::A :=Helmer: There may be a little truth in what you say, though you 3.4 ::A :=Nora: Didn't you say yourself a few minutes ago that you dare not leave 3.4 ::A :=Helmer: In a moment of excitement. Surely you don't 3.5 ::A :=Nora: be easiest for me to find some kind of a job there. 3.5 ::A :=Helmer: First and foremost you are a wife and a mother. 3.5 ::A :=Helmer: First and foremost you are a wife and a mother. 3.5 ::A :=Nora: I believe that I am first and foremost a human being, like you -- or anyway, that 3.5 ::A :=Helmer: But it's unheard of for so young a woman to behave like this! If religion 3.5 ::A :=Nora: that such laws can be right. Has a woman really not the right to spare her 3.5 ::A :=Helmer: You're talking like a child. You don't understand how society 3.5 ::A :=Nora: -- well, good heavens, I'm not such a fool as to suppose that miracles occur 3.5 ::A :=Nora: out there, it never occurred to me for a moment that you would let that man trample 3.5 ::A :=Nora: thinking I wouldn't have accepted such a sacrifice from you? No, of course I wouldn't! 3.5 ::A :=Helmer: Oh, you think and talk like a stupid child. 3.5 ::A :=Nora: years I have been living here with a complete stranger, and have borne him three 3.5 ::A :=Helmer: I see it, I see it. A gulf has indeed opened between us. Oh, 3.5 ::A :=Nora: I can't spend the night in a strange man's house. 3.5 ::A :=Nora: Listen, Torvald. When a wife leaves her husband's house, as I'm 3.5 ::A :=Helmer: Nora -- can I never be anything but a stranger to you? 3.5 ::A :=Nora: together between us two could become a marriage. Goodbye. 1.1 ::ABLE :=Nora: you, Torvald, thank you! I should be able to manage with this. 1.2 ::ABLE :=Nora: percentages too. From now on we'll be able to live quite differently -- we'll be 1.2 ::ABLE :=Nora: to live quite differently -- we'll be able to do whatever we want. Oh, Christine, 1.2 ::ABLE :=Nora: understand. You mean Torvald might be able to do something for you? 1.2 ::ABLE :=Mrs. Linde: I am both proud and happy that I was able to make my mother's last months on earth 1.3 ::ABLE :=Nora: there as best I can. I haven't been able to save much on the housekeeping money, 1.3 ::ABLE :=Nora: blue, -- and then perhaps we'll be able to take a little trip somewhere. I shall 1.3 ::ABLE :=Nora: a little trip somewhere. I shall be able to see the sea again. Oh, yes, yes, 1.4 ::ABLE :=Helmer: Well then, it's quite likely I may be able to find some job for you -- 2.1 ::ABLE :=Nora: Anne-Marie, from now on I shan't be able to spend so much time with them. 2.3 ::ABLE :=Rank: And not to be able to leave even the most wretched token 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: But what about the people I'd borrowed from? 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Them? Who cares about them? They're strangers. 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: seriously, Nora, you know how I feel about this. No debts! Never borrow! A home 1.1 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Torvald; then I'll have time to think about what I need most. Isn't that the best 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: No, no, no. I want to hear about you. 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Nora: selfish today, I'm just going to think about you. Oh, but there's one thing I must 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Nora: And of course Torvald's been very firm about that -- and I'm absolutely with him. 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Nora: of money and not to have to worry about anything. Don't you think? 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: Oh, I see. Didn't he die just about that time? 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Yes, Christine, just about then. Wasn't it dreadful, I couldn't 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Nora: how beastly of me! I'm only talking about myself. Oh, please don't be angry with 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: to be angry. That's the worst thing about this kind of situation -- it makes 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: egocentric. When you told me about this luck you've just had with Torvald's 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: It's sweet of you to bother so much about me, Nora. Especially since you know 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: Nora dear, you've just told me about all your difficulties -- 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Pooh -- that! I haven't told you about the big thing. 1.2 ::ABOUT :=Nora: done something to be proud and happy about. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: done something to be happy and proud about. It was I who saved Torvald's life 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: I told you about our trip to Italy. Torvald couldn't 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: And you've never told your husband about this? 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: What an idea! He's frightfully strict about such matters. And besides -- he's so 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: What do you want to talk to my husband about? 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: don't know. But don't let's talk about business. It's so boring. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Oh? What did he want to talk to Torvald about? 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Rank: idea. All I heard was something about the bank. 1.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: What do I care about society? I think it's a bore. I was 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: We won't talk about that for the present. There's something 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: Look, let's not beat about the bush. There's still time, and I'd 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: money; that's the last thing I care about. There's something else -- well, you 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: hand to the kind of business you know about. I had to do something; and I don't 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: and my joy -- that he should hear about it in such a filthy, beastly way -- 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: in such a filthy, beastly way -- hear about it from you! It'd involve me in the 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: If my husband hears about it, he will of course immediately pay 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: memory or else you know very little about financial transactions. I had better 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: conditions. You were so worried about your husband's illness and so keen 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: that I don't think you bothered much about the details. So it won't be out of 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: But to return to what we were speaking about -- that was a difficult time for you 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: of his death. There's nothing criminal about that. It's the signature itself I'm 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: the signature itself I'm wondering about. It is genuine, I suppose, Mrs. Helmer? 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: I couldn't bother about that. I didn't care about you. I hated 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: bother about that. I didn't care about you. I hated you because of all the 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: her husband's life? I don't know much about the law, but there must be something 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: things are allowed. You ought to know about that, you're meant to be a lawyer, 1.5 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: you'll admit I understand something about that? Good. Do as you please. But I 1.6 ::ABOUT :=Nora: yes, I know. But don't talk to anyone about the strange gentleman. You hear? Not 1.6 ::ABOUT :=Nora: there's nothing to be frightened about. The Christmas tree must be beautiful. 1.6 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: of course it is. So let's hear no more about that. Ah, how cosy and peaceful it 1.6 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: of this read before dinner. I'll think about your costume too. And I may even have 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Nora: No one will come. I just mustn't think about it. Brush this muff. Pretty gloves, 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Nora: gloves, pretty gloves! Don't think about it, don't think about it! One, two, 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Don't think about it, don't think about it! One, two, three, four, five, six 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: Nora, how on earth did you get to know about such things? 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Nora: with women who -- well, who know about medical matters, and they tell one 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Nora: home. So naturally, I stopped talking about them. But I often chat with Dr. Rank 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Nora: them. But I often chat with Dr. Rank about that kind of thing. He enjoys it, you 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: Last night you were speaking about this rich admirer of yours who was 2.1 ::ABOUT :=Nora: What on earth are you talking about? 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: isn't that business you were talking about this morning? 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Nora: those dreadful men wrote in the papers about Papa! The most frightful slanders. 2.2 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: to dismiss Krogstad. If the rumour got about that the new manager had allowed his 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Rank: out. And there's nothing to be done about it. 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: sure you understand -- I feel the same about Torvald as I did about Papa. 2.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: I feel the same about Torvald as I did about Papa. 2.4 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Helen, you mustn't tell anyone about this. It's a surprise for my husba 2.4 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: you, Mrs. Helmer. I've been thinking about you all day. Even duns and hack journalists 2.4 ::ABOUT :=Nora: My husband must never know about this. 2.4 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: keep it. No one else need ever hear about it. So in case you were thinking of 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: you, no one else knows anything about this. I did it entirely on my own. 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: you understand? A -- miracle -- is about to happen. 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Torvald always opens the box at just about this time -- 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: You mustn't think about anything but me -- today or tomorrow. 2.5 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: Aha, you're still worried about that fellow -- 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Mrs. Linde: same position as you. No one to care about, no one to care for. 3.1 ::ABOUT :=Krogstad: ? Is it possible? Tell me -- you know all about my past? 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: pretty little heart. What's to be done about that? Would you believe it, I practically 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: extraordinarily exhilarated. But what about you? Yes, you look very sleepy and 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: And then when we're about to go, and I wrap the shawl round your 3.2 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: You little gadabout! Are you thinking about the next one already? 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: When your friend is about to die -- ? 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Nora: What about me? 3.3 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: my whole world seemed to be tumbling about my ears. I have forgiven you, Nora. 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Torvald. You and I have a lot to talk about. 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Nora: Doesn't anything strike you about the way we're sitting here? 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Nora: I'm not talking about worries. I'm simply saying that we 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Nora: he used to tell me what he thought about everything, so that I never had any 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Nora: And what about me? Am I fit to educate the childr 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Nora: own feet if I am to find out the truth about myself and about life. So I can't go 3.4 ::ABOUT :=Nora: to find out the truth about myself and about life. So I can't go on living here 3.5 ::ABOUT :=Helmer: And you feel quite sure about this too? 3.5 ::ABOUT :=Nora: leave the keys here. The servants know about everything to do with the house -- 3.3 ::ABOVE :=Helmer: There's a black cross above his name. Look. Rather gruesome, isn't 1.3 ::ABROAD :=Nora: how wonderful it would be for me to go abroad like other young wives; I cried and 1.5 ::ABROAD :=Krogstad: so keen to get the money to take him abroad that I don't think you bothered much 3.2 ::ABSOLUTE :=Rank: Absolute certainty. So aren't I entitled 1.2 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Nora: been very firm about that -- and I'm absolutely with him. Oh, you can imagine 1.4 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Helmer: There's absolutely no need. But now I'm afraid I 3.2 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Helmer: Nora -- soon the whole house will be absolutely quiet. 3.3 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Helmer: I must empty the letter-box. It's absolutely full. There'll be no room for 3.5 ::ABSOLUTELY :=Nora: Yes, absolutely sure. That's why I can't go on 3.5 ::ACCEPT :=Nora: books. But I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written 3.5 ::ACCEPT :=Nora: I'd imagined them to be; but I can't accept that such laws can be right. Has a 3.5 ::ACCEPT :=Nora: I tell you, no. I don't accept things from strangers. 3.5 ::ACCEPTED :=Nora: You're thinking I wouldn't have accepted such a sacrifice from you? No, of 3.3 ::ACCIDENT :=Helmer: sorry for what has happened -- a happy accident has changed his life -- oh, what 3.3 ::ACCOMPLICE :=Helmer: easily be suspected of having been an accomplice in your crime. People may think 1.6 ::ACCORD :=Helmer: pretend you were doing it of your own accord? You weren't going to tell me he'd 1.5 ::ACCORDING :=Krogstad: to the police, you will be judged according to it. 3.5 ::ACCORDING :=Nora: house, as I'm doing now, I'm told that according to the law he is freed of any obligations 1.2 ::ACCOUNT :=Mrs. Linde: -- I was happy not so much on your account, as on my own. 2.3 ::ACCURATE :=Rank: When that's done I'll have a pretty accurate idea of when the final disintegration 1.6 ::ACROSS :=Helmer: Oh, my dear, I've come across it so often in my work at the bar. 1.1 ::ACT :=Nora: You know I could never act against your wishes. 2.4 ::ACT :=Krogstad: it's your husband who's forced me to act like this. And for that I'll never forget 3.3 ::ACT :=Helmer: the less because you don't know how to act on your own initiative? No, no. Just 1.6 ::ACTION :=Helmer: as to condemn a man for an isolated action. 2.4 ::ACTION :=Krogstad: seriously. I'm not going to take any action for the present. 3.1 ::ACTIONS :=Mrs. Linde: But surely you still believe in actions? 1.2 ::ACTUALLY :=Nora: Well, actually, we got it from my father. 1.5 ::ADDED :=Krogstad: Exactly. But then I added a few lines naming your father as security 1.5 ::ADDED :=Krogstad: he signed, and someone else could have added it before the news came of his death. 2.2 ::ADDRESS :=Helmer: that he delivers it. Immediately! The address is on the envelope. Here's the m 2.4 ::ADDRESSED :=Krogstad: is over . . . I've got a letter in my pocket here addressed to your husband 2.3 ::ADIEU :=Rank: no. But perhaps I ought to say -- adieu? 1.3 ::ADMIRER :=Nora: other way. I could have got it from an admirer. When a girl's as pretty as I am 2.1 ::ADMIRER :=Mrs. Linde: you were speaking about this rich admirer of yours who was going to give you 3.2 ::ADMIRING :=Helmer: Well, Mrs. Linde, finished admiring her? 1.5 ::ADMISSION :=Krogstad: do you realize this is a dangerous admission? 1.5 ::ADMIT :=Krogstad: been transacting -- I think you'll admit I understand something about that? 1.6 ::ADMIT :=Helmer: in re-establishing themselves if they admit their crime and take their punishm 2.3 ::ADVICE :=Nora: far too much --I want your help and advice, and I want you to do something for 1.5 ::ADVISE :=Krogstad: the bush. There's still time, and I'd advise you to use your influence to stop 3.2 ::AESTHETICALLY :=Helmer: too realistic -- more so than was aesthetically necessary, strictly speaking. 2.3 ::AFFECT :=Nora: that all those lovely things should affect one's spine. 1.1 ::AFFORD :=Helmer: Well, you know, we canUt afford to be extravagant. 1.1 ::AFFORD :=Nora: Only as much as you feel you can afford; then later I'll buy something with 2.1 ::AFFORD :=Nurse: girl what's got into trouble can't afford to pick and choose. That good-for-nothing 1.2 ::AFRAID :=Nora: No, I'm afraid I -- Yes, wait a minute -- surely 1.2 ::AFRAID :=Nora: you. I've three lovely children. I'm afraid you can't see them now, because they're 1.3 ::AFRAID :=Nora: know Torvald had forbidden them. He's afraid they'll ruin my teeth. But, dash it 1.4 ::AFRAID :=Helmer: There's absolutely no need. But now I'm afraid I must ask you to excuse me -- 1.4 ::AFRAID :=Nora: nuisance we're so cramped here -- I'm afraid we can't offer to -- 1.5 ::AFRAID :=Nora: I'm not afraid of you any longer. Once the New Year 1.5 ::AFRAID :=Krogstad: domestic unpleasantness you were afraid of. 3.1 ::AFRAID :=Mrs. Linde: other. I believe in you, Nils. I am afraid of nothing -- with you. 3.2 ::AFRAID :=Mrs. Linde: Yes. I got here too late, I'm afraid. You'd already gone up. And I felt 3.3 ::AFRAID :=Helmer: frightened little songbird. Don't be afraid. I have broad wings to shield you. 1.2 ::AFTER :=Nora: it dreadful, I couldn't go and look after him. I was expecting little Ivar any 1.2 ::AFTER :=Nora: we mustn't delay. So we went the month after Papa died. 1.2 ::AFTER :=Mrs. Linde: they've got jobs now and can look after themselves. 1.3 ::AFTER :=Nora: Of course. Well, after all, it was my problem. Whenever Torvald 1.3 ::AFTER :=Nora: used to dream up as I sat here evening after evening wondering how on earth I could 1.4 ::AFTER :=Nora: on the stove. What? A big dog ran after you? But he didn't bite you? No, dogs 1.5 ::AFTER :=Krogstad: father signed this paper three days after his death. 2.3 ::AFTER :=Nora: After this? 2.4 ::AFTER :=Nora: It's happening. It's happening after all. No, no, no, it can't happen, it 3.2 ::AFTER :=Helmer: Was I going to let her stay on after that and spoil the impression? No, 3.2 ::AFTER :=Rank: shouldn't a man have a merry evening after a well-spent day? 3.2 ::AFTER :=Rank: I entitled to have a merry evening after that? 3.5 ::AFTER :=Nora: here from home. I'll have them sent on after me. 1.5 ::AFTERWARDS :=Krogstad: He did in fact die shortly afterwards? 2.4 ::AFTERWARDS :=Nora: But afterwards? When I'm no longer -- ? 3.2 ::AFTERWARDS :=Nora: Yes. It always makes him merry afterwards. 1.1 ::AGAIN :=Helmer: little squanderbird been overspending again? 1.1 ::AGAIN :=Helmer: I'll have to put my hand in my pocket again. 1.1 ::AGAIN :=Nora: Oh, are you going to bring that up again? How could I help the cat getting in 1.2 ::AGAIN :=Nora: live. Dear, kind Papa! I never saw him again, Christine. Oh, it's the saddest thing 1.3 ::AGAIN :=Nora: I shall be able to see the sea again. Oh, yes, yes, it's a wonderful thing 1.5 ::AGAIN :=Nora: hurt Mummy. When he's gone we'll start playing again. 1.6 ::AGAIN :=Children: No, Mummy. Will you play with us again now? 1.6 ::AGAIN :=Helmer: My little songbird must never do that again. A songbird must have a clean beak 2.1 ::AGAIN :=Nurse: What, out again? In this dreadful weather? You'll catch 2.1 ::AGAIN :=Nurse: once when she got confirmed and then again when she got married. 2.2 ::AGAIN :=Helmer: you really the nerve to bring that up again? 2.3 ::AGAIN :=Rank: Today again? You see! 2.4 ::AGAIN :=Krogstad: I'll tell you. I want to get on my feet again, Mrs. Helmer. I want to get to the 2.4 ::AGAIN :=Krogstad: And then, in the spring, to float up again, ugly, unrecognizable, hairless -- 2.5 ::AGAIN :=Helmer: may a man enter his own drawing-room again? Come on, Rank, now we'll see what 3.1 ::AGAIN :=Mrs. Linde: others doesn't make the same mistake again. 3.2 ::AGAIN :=Helmer: it's nice to get back to one's home again, and be all alone with you. Upon my 3.3 ::AGAIN :=Nora: Never see him again. Never. Never. Never. Never see the 3.3 ::AGAIN :=Nora: Never. Never. Never see the children again. Them too. Never. Never. Oh -- the 3.3 ::AGAIN :=Helmer: go on telling ourselves over and over again: "It's over! It's over!" Listen to 3.3 ::AGAIN :=Helmer: to calm yourself and get your balance again, my frightened little songbird. Don't 3.3 ::AGAIN :=Helmer: Never be frightened of anything again, Nora. Just open your heart to me. 1.1 ::AGAINST :=Nora: You know I could never act against your wishes. 3.5 ::AGAINST :=Nora: what would my word have counted for against yours? That was the miracle I was 3.2 ::AGES :=Helmer: seen him in such a jolly mood for ages. I say, it's nice to get back to one's 1.2 ::AGO :=Mrs. Linde: Yes. Three years ago. 1.3 ::AGO :=Mrs. Linde: I used to know him -- some years ago. He was a solicitor's clerk in our town, 1.5 ::AGO :=Krogstad: as everyone else does, that some years ago I committed an indiscretion. 3.4 ::AGO :=Nora: Didn't you say yourself a few minutes ago that you dare not leave them in my c 1.1 ::AGREE :=Helmer: that one has ample income. Don't you agree? It's good to know that, isn't it? 1.3 ::AGREE :=Nora: But, dash it -- for once -- ! Don't you agree, Dr. Rank? Here! You too, Christine. 3.2 ::AGREE :=Helmer: I agree. Provided you don't have to regret 1.5 ::AGREED :=Nora: Haven't I repaid the instalments as agreed? 3.2 ::AGREED :=Helmer: Nora, my sweet. You know what we agreed. Come along, now. Into the drawing-room. 1.3 ::AH :=Nora: Ah, but when a wife has a little business 1.3 ::AH :=Nora: Yes, with a lot of children. Ah, now it's alight. 1.3 ::AH :=Rank: Ah! A name I have often heard in this house. 1.3 ::AH :=Rank: Ah, is that all? Then I take it you've come 1.4 ::AH :=Helmer: Ah. A childhood friend of my wife's, I p 1.4 ::AH :=Nora: parcels alone, Ivar. What's in them? Ah, wouldn't you like to know! No, no; it's 1.6 ::AH :=Helmer: is. So let's hear no more about that. Ah, how cosy and peaceful it is here. 2.1 ::AH :=Nora: One, two, three, four, five, six -- Ah -- they're coming -- ! 2.1 ::AH :=Mrs. Linde: just come away. Needle and thread? Ah, here we are. 2.3 ::AH :=Rank: Ah, so that's your big secret? 2.5 ::AH :=Mrs. Linde: Ah -- ! 3.1 ::AH :=Mrs. Linde: time left. Please God he hasn't -- ! Ah, here he is. Come in. There's no one 3.1 ::AH :=Mrs. Linde: my fingers. Oh, why don't they come? Ah, here they are. I must get my coat on 3.2 ::AH :=Helmer: here. What's this? It's dark in here. Ah, yes, of course -- excuse me. 3.2 ::AH :=Rank: voice, so I felt I had to say goodbye. Ah, yes -- the dear rooms, how well I know 3.2 ::AH :=Helmer: Ah yes, of course. 3.3 ::AH :=Helmer: to break them of that habit. Hm, hm. Ah, that's done it. Helen! Helen! Put out 3.3 ::AH :=Helmer: Ah, poor fellow. I knew I wouldn't be seeing 3.3 ::AH :=Nora: Ah -- ! 3.3 ::AH :=Helmer: over! Why are you looking so pale? Ah, my poor little Nora, I understand. You 3.3 ::AH :=Helmer: disown you, or even to reproach you? Ah, Nora, you don't understand what goes 1.6 ::AHA :=Helmer: Aha! So little Miss Independent's in trouble 2.3 ::AHA :=Nora: Aha! But surely you can't be jealous of poor 2.5 ::AHA :=Helmer: Aha! 2.5 ::AHA :=Helmer: Aha, you're still worried about that fellow 2.2 ::AHEAD :=Helmer: You're simply imagining things. You go ahead now and do your tarantella, and get 1.3 ::AIR'LL :=Nora: it'll soon be spring, and the air'll be fresh and the skies blue, -- and 1.5 ::AJAR :=Krogstad: I beg your pardon; the front door was ajar. Someone must have forgotten to close 3.4 ::ALARM :=Helmer: You alarm me, Nora. I don't understand you. 2.5 ::ALARMED :=Helmer: Now, now, don't get alarmed. We're not coming in; you've closed 1.3 ::ALIGHT :=Nora: with a lot of children. Ah, now it's alight. 1.2 ::ALIVE :=Nora: isn't it a wonderful thing to be alive and happy! Oh, but how beastly of me! 1.2 ::ALIVE :=Mrs. Linde: Well, my mother was still alive; and she was helpless and bedridden. 1.3 ::ALIVE :=Nora: yes, yes, it's a wonderful thing to be alive and happy! 1.3 ::ALIVE :=Nora: Dr. Rank. I bet you want to stay alive. 1.1 ::ALL :=Helmer: disturb me! Bought, did you say? All that? Has my little squanderbird been 1.1 ::ALL :=Helmer: fifty pounds today, and you spent it all over Christmas, and then on New Year's 1.1 ::ALL :=Helmer: with it. But you'll spend it on all sorts of useless things for the house, 1.1 ::ALL :=Helmer: flowers for the Christmas tree, and all those other things you were going to 1.1 ::ALL :=Helmer: But it all came to nothing in the end, didn't i 1.1 ::ALL :=Helmer: wanted to make us happy, and that's all that matters. But it's good that those 1.1 ::ALL :=Nora: have to any longer? Oh, it's really all just like a miracle. Now, I'm going to 1.2 ::ALL :=Nora: time for me! So you've come to town? All that way in winter! How brave of you 1.2 ::ALL :=Nora: Nothing at all, then? 1.2 ::ALL :=Nora: All alone. How dreadful that must be for 1.2 ::ALL :=Nora: quite dreadfully. He had to take on all sorts of extra jobs, and worked day and 1.2 ::ALL :=Nora: You're like the rest. You all think I'm incapable of getting down to 1.2 ::ALL :=Mrs. Linde: Nora dear, you've just told me about all your difficulties -- 1.3 ::ALL :=Mrs. Linde: You? All of it? 1.3 ::ALL :=Nora: completely useless, am I? Mind you, all this has caused me a frightful lot of 1.3 ::ALL :=Nora: Of course. Well, after all, it was my problem. Whenever Torvald 1.3 ::ALL :=Nora: any more! No more troubles! I can play all day with the children, I can fill the 1.3 ::ALL :=Rank: Ah, is that all? Then I take it you've come to town to 1.3 ::ALL :=Rank: long as possible. It's the same with all my patients; and with people who are 1.3 ::ALL :=Rank: you wouldn't know him. He's crippled all right; morally twisted. But even he started 1.3 ::ALL :=Rank: I haven't the faintest idea. All I heard was something about the bank 1.3 ::ALL :=Nora: All right, all right, don't get frightened. 1.3 ::ALL :=Nora: All right, all right, don't get frightened. You weren't 1.4 ::ALL :=Nora: And imagine, now she's travelled all this way to talk to you. 1.4 ::ALL :=Nora: Bob shall hide first. You want me to? All right, let me hide first. 1.5 ::ALL :=Krogstad: the worst. But now I want to give up all that. My sons are growing up; for their 1.5 ::ALL :=Nora: All right, do it! You'll be the one who'll 1.5 ::ALL :=Nora: care about you. I hated you because of all the beastly difficulties you'd put in 1.6 ::ALL :=Helmer: him promises -- and then, on top of it all, to tell me an untruth! 1.6 ::ALL :=Nora: I can't think of anything to wear. It all seems so stupid and meaningless. 1.6 ::ALL :=Helmer: so often in my work at the bar. Nearly all young criminals are the children of mothers 1.6 ::ALL :=Helmer: Krogstad has been sitting at home all these years poisoning his children with 2.1 ::ALL :=Nurse: They're all rumpled up. 2.1 ::ALL :=Nurse: Why, madam! They'll be all right. Just a little patience. 2.1 ::ALL :=Nora: had it made for me in Italy; now it's all so torn, I don't know -- 2.1 ::ALL :=Nora: love with me that he wants to have me all to himself -- those were his very words. 2.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: Nice -- to give in to your husband? All right, little silly, I know you didn't 2.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: But I am; and I hope to remain so all my life. 2.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: to settle this matter once and for all. Take this letter downstairs at once. 2.2 ::ALL :=Nora: don't realize what this may do to us all! 2.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: won't hear anything, and you can make all the noise you want. When Dr. Rank comes, 2.3 ::ALL :=Rank: to oneself. I am the most wretched of all my patients, Mrs. Helmer. These last 2.3 ::ALL :=Rank: With death on my hands? And all this to atone for someone else's sin? 2.3 ::ALL :=Rank: Yes, you're right. Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for. My poor innocent 2.3 ::ALL :=Nora: And all that port and champagne to wash them 2.3 ::ALL :=Nora: to wash them down. It's too sad that all those lovely things should affect one's 2.3 ::ALL :=Nora: Oh yes, that's the saddest thing of all. 2.3 ::ALL :=Rank: And now to have to leave it all -- 2.3 ::ALL :=Nora: sweet Dr. Rank, I didn't mean that at all. But I'm sure you understand -- I feel 2.3 ::ALL :=Nora: No, no, nothing at all. It's just something that -- it's my 2.4 ::ALL :=Nora: It's happening. It's happening after all. No, no, no, it can't happen, it mustn't 2.4 ::ALL :=Krogstad: Don't worry, I'll show him all the respect he deserves. But since you're 2.4 ::ALL :=Krogstad: Helmer. I've been thinking about you all day. Even duns and hack journalists have 2.4 ::ALL :=Krogstad: It can all be settled quite amicably. There's no 2.4 ::ALL :=Krogstad: been clean. I've been in hard straits all that time; I was content to fight my 2.5 ::ALL :=Nora: Christine, all I want is for you to be my witness. 2.5 ::ALL :=Nora: try to take the blame, and say it was all his fault -- you understand -- ? 2.5 ::ALL :=Mrs. Linde: All right. But I simply don't understand 2.5 ::ALL :=Nora: No, I haven't practised at all yet. 2.5 ::ALL :=Nora: me you will? Oh, I'm so nervous. All those people -- ! You must forget everything 2.5 ::ALL :=Helmer: No, no, this won't do at all. 2.5 ::ALL :=Nora: ugly to come between us till it's all over. 2.5 ::ALL :=Nora: All right. Go and sit down -- and you too, 3.1 ::ALL :=Mrs. Linde: you, I thought it my duty to destroy all the feelings you had for me. 3.1 ::ALL :=Krogstad: When I lost you, it was just as though all solid ground had been swept from under 3.1 ::ALL :=Krogstad: Wouldn't it? I'd do it all the same. 3.1 ::ALL :=Krogstad: I don't believe all that. You're just being hysterical and 3.1 ::ALL :=Krogstad: -- ? Is it possible? Tell me -- you know all about my past? 3.1 ::ALL :=Krogstad: All right, I'll go. It's no good, Christine. 3.1 ::ALL :=Mrs. Linde: understanding; there must be an end of all these shiftings and evasions. 3.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: -- can't help it. Look -- arms all huddled up -- great clumsy needles going 3.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: I hope you'll manage to get home all right? I'd gladly -- but you haven't 3.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: get back to one's home again, and be all alone with you. Upon my word, you're 3.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: at my most treasured possession? At all this wonderful beauty that's mine, mine 3.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: beauty that's mine, mine alone, all mine. 3.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: that nobody knows there's anything at all between us. 3.2 ::ALL :=Helmer: young and trembling and beautiful. All evening I've had no eyes for anyone but 3.2 ::ALL :=Nora: Get away from me! I don't want all this. 3.3 ::ALL :=Nora: bottomless -- that -- ! Oh, it only it were all over! Now he's got it -- he's reading 3.3 ::ALL :=Helmer: happen. I should have foreseen it. All your father's recklessness and instability 3.3 ::ALL :=Helmer: instability -- be quiet! -- I repeat, all your father's recklessness and instability 3.3 ::ALL :=Helmer: Now you have destroyed all my happiness. You have ruined my whole 3.3 ::ALL :=Helmer: me in the slightest. He can still make all the facts public; and if he does, I may 3.3 ::ALL :=Helmer: it was I who encouraged you! And for all this I have to thank you, you whom I 3.3 ::ALL :=Helmer: I have carried on my hands through all the years of our marriage! Now do you 3.3 ::ALL :=Helmer: so dearly -- and whom I still -- ! Well, all that must finished. Henceforth 3.3 ::ALL :=Helmer: it will happen, believe me. Tomorrow all this will seem quite different. Soon 3.4 ::ALL :=Helmer: Did you expect me to drag you into all my worries -- worries you couldn't possibly 3.4 ::ALL :=Nora: go in and play games with them. That's all our marriage has been, Torvald. 3.5 ::ALL :=Nora: this and that. When I get away from all this and can think things out on my own, 3.5 ::ALL :=Nora: that you would step forward and take all the blame on yourself, and say: "I am 3.5 ::ALL :=Nora: All the more necessary that it should ha 1.5 ::ALLOWED :=Nora: that says that such things are allowed. You ought to know about that, you're 2.2 ::ALLOWED :=Helmer: got about that the new manager had allowed his wife to persuade him to change 2.2 ::ALLOWED :=Helmer: I might conceivably have allowed myself to ignore his moral obloquies 2.3 ::ALLOWED :=Rank: On any pretext. I shan't have him allowed in. As soon as I know the worst, 2.3 ::ALLOWED :=Rank: mustn't punish me like this. Let me be allowed to do what I can for you. 2.5 ::ALLOWED :=Nora: Yes, no one's to be allowed to see me before tomorrow night. 1.1 ::ALMOST :=Nora: Yes, it's almost like a miracle. 1.3 ::ALMOST :=Nora: borrow the money. But then he got almost angry with me, Christine. He said 1.3 ::ALMOST :=Nora: working and earning money. It was almost like being a man. 2.1 ::ALMOST :=Nora: a good friend to me too. Dr. Rank's almost one of the family. 2.3 ::ALMOST :=Nora: whom one loves, and others whom it's almost more fun to be with. 3.2 ::ALMOST :=Rank: You noticed that too? It's almost incredible how much I managed to get 3.5 ::ALMOST :=Helmer: Nora, you're ill; you're feverish. I almost believe you're out of your mind. 1.2 ::ALONE :=Nora: All alone. How dreadful that must be for you. 1.4 ::ALONE :=Nora: little baby dolls. Leave those parcels alone, Ivar. What's in them? Ah, wouldn't 3.1 ::ALONE :=Mrs. Linde: entrance. Come in. We're quite alone. The maid's asleep, and the Helmers 3.1 ::ALONE :=Mrs. Linde: of my life -- my only joy. But now I'm alone in the world, and I feel so dreadfully 3.2 ::ALONE :=Helmer: back to one's home again, and be all alone with you. Upon my word, you're a distractingly 3.2 ::ALONE :=Helmer: wonderful beauty that's mine, mine alone, all mine. 3.2 ::ALONE :=Helmer: time -- that, for the first time, I am alone with you -- quite along with you, as 1.5 ::ALONG :=Krogstad: within five or six days you brought it along to me with your father's signature 3.2 ::ALONG :=Helmer: sweet. You know what we agreed. Come along, now. Into the drawing-room. You'll 3.2 ::ALONG :=Helmer: time, I am alone with you -- quite along with you, as you stand there young 3.2 ::ALOOF :=Helmer: I say so little to you, why I keep so aloof from you, and just throw you an occasional 1.2 ::ALREADY :=Nora: and you look practically finished already. It'd be much better for you if you 1.4 ::ALREADY :=Nora: can teach her even more than she knows already -- 1.6 ::ALREADY :=Nora: Oh -- are you back already? 1.6 ::ALREADY :=Nora: Already? 2.2 ::ALREADY :=Helmer: My little skylark does that already. 2.2 ::ALREADY :=Helmer: me to keep him. Everyone at the bank already knows that I intend to dismiss Krogstad. 2.3 ::ALREADY :=Rank: am gone. You seem to have made a start already, haven't you? What was this Mrs. 2.5 ::ALREADY :=Helmer: behaving, there's a letter from him already lying there. 3.2 ::ALREADY :=Mrs. Linde: I got here too late, I'm afraid. You'd already gone up. And I felt I really couldn't 3.2 ::ALREADY :=Helmer: Oh, already? Does this knitting belong to yo 3.2 ::ALREADY :=Helmer: Are you thinking about the next one already? 1.2 ::ALSO :=Nora: And you're also proud of what you've done for your 1.5 ::ALSO :=Krogstad: to risk bumping into me; and now I also realize whom I have to thank for being 2.3 ::ALSO :=Rank: . . . Well, Nora, now you know that. And now you also know that you can trust 3.3 ::ALSO :=Helmer: anew; she is now not only his wife but also his child. From now on that is what 3.5 ::ALSO :=Helmer: Can you also explain why I have lost your love? 1.1 ::ALWAYS :=Helmer: Just like your father used to be. Always on the look-out for some way to get 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: write to you so often, honestly. But I always put it off, and something else always 1.2 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: always put it off, and something else always cropped up. 1.3 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: never used more than half of it; and I always bought what was the cheapest and plainest. 1.6 ::ALWAYS :=Helmer: with that load on his conscience must always be lying and cheating and dissembling; 2.1 ::ALWAYS :=Mrs. Linde: for nothing. But, tell me. Is Dr. Rank always in such low spirits as he was yes 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: Oh, you know very well I've always time to talk to you. 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: Oh, I always think it's enormous fun having you 2.3 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: of course I loved Papa best. But I always used to think it was terribly amusing 2.5 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: Yes, he always keeps it. 2.5 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: But Torvald always opens the box at just about this time 2.5 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: dear. Correct me, lead me, the way you always do. 3.1 ::ALWAYS :=Mrs. Linde: if I'm to find life worth living. I've always worked, for as long as I can remember; 3.2 ::ALWAYS :=Helmer: disappeared! And exit should always be dramatic, Mrs. Linde. But unfortunately 3.2 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: Oh, you're always right, whatever you do. 3.2 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: Yes. It always makes him merry afterwards. 3.3 ::ALWAYS :=Helmer: don't be melodramatic. Your father was always ready with that kind of remark. How 3.4 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: No. I've just had fun. You've always been very kind to me. But our home 3.5 ::ALWAYS :=Nora: to have to say it, because you've always been so kind to me. But I can't help 1.1 ::AM :=Nora: So am I. And, Torvald, how the children will 1.2 ::AM :=Nora: children are fit and healthy and so am I. Oh God, oh God, Christine, isn't it 1.2 ::AM :=Mrs. Linde: anyone, Nora. But you're right -- I am both proud and happy that I was able to 1.3 ::AM :=Nora: admirer. When a girl's as pretty as I am -- 1.3 ::AM :=Nora: Christine? I'm not completely useless, am I? Mind you, all this has caused me a 1.5 ::AM :=Krogstad: Your father was very ill, if I am not mistaken. 2.2 ::AM :=Helmer: man of unassailable reputation. But I am; and I hope to remain so all my life. 2.2 ::AM :=Helmer: staff -- give people the idea that I am open to outside influence? Believe me, 2.2 ::AM :=Helmer: Krogstad to remain in the bank while I am its manager. 2.2 ::AM :=Helmer: What did you say? Petty? You think I am petty? 2.2 ::AM :=Helmer: me lacking in strength or courage. I am man enough to bear the burden for us 2.3 ::AM :=Rank: No, it's no good lying to oneself. I am the most wretched of all my patients, 2.3 ::AM :=Rank: this poor body of mine, and I find I am bankrupt. Within a month I may be rotting 2.3 ::AM :=Rank: You and Helmer both will, when I am gone. You seem to have made a start already, 2.3 ::AM :=Rank: Indeed I am. She will be my successor in this house. 2.3 ::AM :=Rank: Nora -- Mrs. Helmer -- I am asking you, did you know this? 2.3 ::AM :=Rank: Well, at any rate now you know that I am ready to serve you, body and soul. So 2.4 ::AM :=Nora: I am. 2.4 ::AM :=Nora: I am. 3.1 ::AM :=Krogstad: from under my feet. Look at me. Now I am a shipwrecked man, clinging to a spar 3.1 ::AM :=Mrs. Linde: each other. I believe in you, Nils. I am afraid of nothing -- with you. 3.2 ::AM :=Helmer: a slow, easy movement -- like this. I am right, aren't I? 3.2 ::AM :=Nora: Yes, I am very tired. Soon I shall sleep. 3.2 ::AM :=Helmer: time -- that, for the first time, I am alone with you -- quite along with you, 3.3 ::AM :=Nora: Yes. Now I am beginning to understand. 3.3 ::AM :=Helmer: it's too dreadful to contemplate! I am in the power of a man who is completely 3.3 ::AM :=Helmer: anything -- I dare not disobey him. I am condemned to humiliation and ruin simply 3.3 ::AM :=Nora: When I am gone from this world, you will be fre 3.3 ::AM :=Helmer: it once more. Yes, yes, it's true! I am saved! Nora, I am saved! 3.3 ::AM :=Helmer: yes, it's true! I am saved! Nora, I am saved! 3.4 ::AM :=Nora: And what about me? Am I fit to educate the children? 3.4 ::AM :=Nora: I must stand on my own feet if I am to find out the truth about myself and 3.5 ::AM :=Nora: that any longer. I believe that I am first and foremost a human being, like 3.5 ::AM :=Nora: don't know. I don't know where I am in these matters. I only know that these 3.5 ::AM :=Nora: all the blame on yourself, and say: "I am the one who is guilty!" 3.5 ::AM :=Nora: As I am now, I am no wife for you. 3.5 ::AM :=Nora: As I am now, I am no wife for you. 3.5 ::AM :=Nora: in better hands than mine. As I am now, I can be nothing to them. 2.4 ::AMICABLY :=Krogstad: It can all be settled quite amicably. There's no need for it to become 2.4 ::AMONG :=Krogstad: for it to become public. We'll keep it among the three of us. 3.2 ::AMONG :=Helmer: Do you know -- when I'm out with you among other people like we were tonight, 1.1 ::AMPLE :=Helmer: position is assured and that one has ample income. Don't you agree? It's good 1.3 ::AMUSES :=Nora: me as he does now; when it no longer amuses him to see me dance and dress up and 1.3 ::AMUSING :=Nora: Never you mind! Yes, I find it very amusing to think that we -- I mean, Torvald 2.3 ::AMUSING :=Nora: I always used to think it was terribly amusing to go down and talk to the servants; 3.2 ::AMUSING :=Rank: Yes, if the disguises are sufficiently amusing. 1.1 ::AN :=Helmer: little creature, but she gets through an awful lot of money. It's incredible what 1.1 ::AN :=Helmer: lot of money. It's incredible what an expensive pet she is for a man to kee 1.2 ::AN :=Nora: it saved Torvald's life. But it cost an awful lot of money, Christine. 1.3 ::AN :=Nora: other way. I could have got it from an admirer. When a girl's as pretty as I 1.3 ::AN :=Nora: For heaven's sake, no! What an idea! He's frightfully strict about such 1.3 ::AN :=Nora: It's awfully difficult to keep an exact check on these kind of transactions. 1.3 ::AN :=Rank: Is that an approved remedy for being run down? 1.4 ::AN :=Helmer: I'll only be an hour. 1.5 ::AN :=Nora: But since you ask, you shall have an answer. Yes, Mrs. Linde is to be employed 1.5 ::AN :=Krogstad: does, that some years ago I committed an indiscretion. 1.5 ::AN :=Krogstad: to get you the money in exchange for an I.O.U., which I drew up. 1.6 ::AN :=Helmer: and then, on top of it all, to tell me an untruth! 1.6 ::AN :=Nora: An untruth? 1.6 ::AN :=Nora: been so busy, I was going to ask you an enormous favour, Torvald. 1.6 ::AN :=Helmer: so heartless as to condemn a man for an isolated action. 1.6 ::AN :=Helmer: Because an atmosphere of lies contaminates and poisons 2.1 ::AN :=Nora: comes here every day! Why, that'd be an impossible situation! 2.2 ::AN :=Helmer: this anxiety. Though it is a bit of an insult to me. Oh, but it is! Isn't it 2.2 ::AN :=Helmer: insult to me. Oh, but it is! Isn't it an insult to imply that I should be frightened 2.3 ::AN :=Rank: even a passing sense of loss; only an empty place, to be filled by the next 2.3 ::AN :=Nora: loves me -- he'd never hesitate for an instant to lay down his life for me - 3.1 ::AN :=Krogstad: and romantic. You want to find an excuse for self-sacrifice. 3.1 ::AN :=Mrs. Linde: to a full understanding; there must be an end of all these shiftings and evasio 3.2 ::AN :=Nora: not letting me stay -- just half an hour longer. 3.2 ::AN :=Helmer: But knitting, now -- that's an ugly business -- can't help it. Look -- 3.2 ::AN :=Helmer: so aloof from you, and just throw you an occasional glance? Do you know why I do 3.3 ::AN :=Helmer: right. This news has upset us both. An ugliness has come between us; thoughts 3.3 ::AN :=Helmer: easily be suspected of having been an accomplice in your crime. People may think 3.5 ::AN :=Helmer: lies in your own home? Haven't you an infallible guide in such matter -- your 3.5 ::AN :=Nora: Oh, Torvald, that isn't an easy question to answer. I simply don't 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: Just now. Come out here, Torvald, and see what IUve bought. 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: tiny bit? YouUve got a big salary now, and youUre going to make lots and lots of 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: now, and youUre going to make lots and lots of money. 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: I were to borrow fifty pounds today, and you spent it all over Christmas, and 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: and you spent it all over Christmas, and then on New Year's Eve a tile fell off 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: debts can never be a place of freedom and beauty. We two have stuck it out bravely 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: have stuck it out bravely up to now; and we shall continue to do so for the short 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: to show you everything I've bought. And so cheaply! Look, here are new clothes 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: Look, here are new clothes for Ivar -- and a sword. And a horse and trumpet for 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: new clothes for Ivar -- and a sword. And a horse and trumpet for Bob. And a doll 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: for Ivar -- and a sword. And a horse and trumpet for Bob. And a doll and a cradle 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: And a horse and trumpet for Bob. And a doll and a cradle for Emmy -- they're 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: horse and trumpet for Bob. And a doll and a cradle for Emmy -- they're nothing 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: she'll pull them apart in a few day. And some bits of material and handkerchiefs 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: a few day. And some bits of material and handkerchiefs for the maids. Old Anne-Marie 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: And what's in that parcel? 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: wrap up the notes in pretty gold paper and hang them on the Christmas tree. Wouldn't 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: be, if you could keep what I give you and really buy yourself something with it. 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: sorts of useless things for the house, and then I'll have to put my hand in my pocket 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: only knew how many expenses we larks and squirrels have, Torvald. 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: any it just runs through your fingers, and you never know where it's gone. Well, 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: And I wouldn't wish my darling little songbird 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: Of course not. And you've given me your word -- Well, my 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: So am I. And, Torvald, how the children will love 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: to know that one's position is assured and that one has ample income. Don't you 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: make flowers for the Christmas tree, and all those other things you were going 1.1 ::AND :=Nora: How could I help the cat getting in and tearing everything into bits? 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: You simply wanted to make us happy, and that's all that matters. But it's good 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: I don't have to sit by myself and be bored. And you don't have to tire 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: have to sit by myself and be bored. And you don't have to tire your pretty eyes 1.1 ::AND :=Helmer: don't have to tire your pretty eyes and your delicate little hands -- 1.2 ::AND :=Maid: And the doctor's here too, sir. 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: Christine! And I didn't recognize you! But how could 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: Now let's sit down here by the stove and be comfortable. No, you take the armchair. 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: got a little paler, though, Christine. And perhaps a bit thinner. 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: And older, Nora. Much, much older. 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: but how thoughtless of me to sit here and chatter away like this! Dear, sweet Christine, 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: honestly. But I always put it off, and something else always cropped up. 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: darling, what you've gone through! And he didn't leave you anything? 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: case that isn't -- well -- quite nice. And of course Torvald's been very firm about 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: Torvald's been very firm about that -- and I'm absolutely with him. Oh, you can 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: He's joining the bank in the New Year, and he'll be getting a big salary, and lots 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: and he'll be getting a big salary, and lots of percentages too. From now on 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: it's lovely to have heaps of money and not to have to worry about anything. 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: our needs! We're going to have heaps and heaps of money! 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: -- fancy work, crocheting, embroidery and so forth. And other things too. I suppose 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: crocheting, embroidery and so forth. And other things too. I suppose you know 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: of promotion in his department, and of course he needed more money. But the 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: to take on all sorts of extra jobs, and worked day and night. But it was too 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: sorts of extra jobs, and worked day and night. But it was too much for him, and 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: night. But it was too much for him, and he became frightfully ill. The doctors 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: to do it. Oh, it was a marvelous trip! And it saved Torvald's life. But it cost 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: Two hundred and fifty pounds. That's a lot of money, 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: Wasn't it dreadful, I couldn't go and look after him. I was expecting little 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: I was expecting little Ivar any day. And then I had my poor Torvald to care for 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: Yes. Well, we had the money, you see, and the doctors said we mustn't delay. So 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: And your husband came back completely cu 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: anyone's ill. He's our best friend, and he looks us up at least once every day. 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: a moment's illness since we went away. And the children are fit and healthy and 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: we went away. And the children are fit and healthy and so am I. Oh God, oh God, 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: And the children are fit and healthy and so am I. Oh God, oh God, Christine, isn't 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: isn't it a wonderful thing to be alive and happy! Oh, but how beastly of me! I'm 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: Well, my mother was still alive; and she was helpless and bedridden. And I 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: was still alive; and she was helpless and bedridden. And I had my two little brothers 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: and she was helpless and bedridden. And I had my two little brothers to take 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: Nora. When he died it went bankrupt, and there was nothing left. 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: somehow, so I started a little shop, and a little school, and anything else I 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: a little shop, and a little school, and anything else I could turn my hand to. 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: need me any more; she's passed away. And the boys don't need me either; they've 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: need me either; they've got jobs now and can look after themselves. 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: fine some work here that will exercise and occupy my mind. If only I could get a 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: that's dreadfully exhausting; and you look practically finished already. 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: so bitter. One has no one to work for; and yet one has to be continually sponging 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: sponging for jobs. One has to live; and so one becomes completely egocentric. 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: you know so little of the worries and hardships of life. 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: proud that you've worked so long and so hard for your mother. 1.2 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: But you're right -- I am both proud and happy that I was able to make my mother's 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: And you're also proud of what you've done 1.2 ::AND :=Nora: I too have done something to be proud and happy about. 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: I too have done something to be happy and proud about. It was I who saved Torvald's 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: So Torvald and everyone else thinks. But -- 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: Two hundred and fifty pounds. What do you say to tha 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: a wife has a little business sense, and knows how to be clever -- 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: they told that his life was in danger and that only going to a warm climate could 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: abroad like other young wives; I cried and prayed; I asked him to remember my condition, 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: I asked him to remember my condition, and said he ought to be nice and tender to 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: and said he ought to be nice and tender to me; and then I suggested he 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: he ought to be nice and tender to me; and then I suggested he might quite easily 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: Christine. He said I was frivolous, and that it was his duty as a husband not 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: as a husband not to pander to my moods and caprices -- I think that's what he called 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: you've got to be saved somehow. And then I thought of a way -- 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: thought of letting him into the plot and asking him not to tell. But since he 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: to tell. But since he was so ill -- ! And as things turned out, it didn't become 1.3 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: And you've never told your husband about 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: frightfully strict about such matters. And besides -- he's so proud of being a man 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: of being a man -- it'd be so painful and humiliating for him to know that he owed 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: no longer amuses him to see me dance and dress up and play the fool for him. Then 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: him to see me dance and dress up and play the fool for him. Then it might 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: things called quarterly instalments and interest, and they're a terrible problem 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: quarterly instalments and interest, and they're a terrible problem to cope with. 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: So I've had to scrape a little here and save a little there as best I can. I 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: because Torvald likes to live well; and I couldn't let the children go short 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: I never used more than half of it; and I always bought what was the cheapest 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: I always bought what was the cheapest and plainest. Thank heaven anything suits 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: And then I've found one or two other sources 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: copying to do. So I shut myself away and wrote every evening, late into the night. 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: fun, though, sitting there working and earning money. It was almost like being 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: know where to turn. Then I'd sit here and imagine some rich old gentleman had fallen 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: Silly! And that now he'd died and when they opened 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: Silly! And that now he'd died and when they opened his will it said in 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: things, just the way Torvald likes. And, Christine, it'll soon be spring, and 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: And, Christine, it'll soon be spring, and the air'll be fresh and the skies blue, 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: be spring, and the air'll be fresh and the skies blue, -- and then perhaps we'll 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: air'll be fresh and the skies blue, -- and then perhaps we'll be able to take a 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: it's a wonderful thing to be alive and happy! 1.3 ::AND :=Krogstad: it. I hold a minor post in the bank, and I hear your husband is to become our 1.3 ::AND :=Rank: dear chap, don't see me out. I'll go and have a word with your wife. Oh, I beg 1.3 ::AND :=Rank: It's the same with all my patients; and with people who are morally sick, too. 1.3 ::AND :=Rank: trying to smell out moral corruption? And when they find a case they give him some 1.3 ::AND :=Nora: you agree, Dr. Rank? Here! You too, Christine. and I'll have one too. Just a 1.3 ::AND :=Rank: Oh? And what is that? 1.4 ::AND :=Nora: And imagine, now she's travelled all this 1.4 ::AND :=Nora: frightfully good at office work, and she's mad to come under some really clever 1.4 ::AND :=Nora: she came her as quickly as she could and -- Torvald, you will, won't you? Do a 1.4 ::AND :=Helmer: And you have experience of office work? 1.4 ::AND :=Mrs. Linde: dream of it. Goodbye, Nora dear, and thanks for everything. 1.4 ::AND :=Nora: coming back this evening, of course. And you too, Dr. Rank. What? If you're well 1.4 ::AND :=Nora: red cheeks you've got! Like apples and roses! Have you had fun? That's splendid. 1.4 ::AND :=Nora: fun? That's splendid. You gave Emmy and Bob a ride on the sledge? What, both 1.4 ::AND :=Nora: let me; it's such fun. Go inside and warm yourself; you look frozen. There's 1.4 ::AND :=Nora: play a game. What shall we play? Hide and seek. Yes, let's play hide and seek. 1.4 ::AND :=Nora: Hide and seek. Yes, let's play hide and seek. Bob shall hide first. You want 1.5 ::AND :=Krogstad: I was sitting in the cafe down below and I saw your husband cross the street 1.5 ::AND :=Nora: Linde is to be employed by the bank. And I arranged it, Mr. Krogstad. Now you 1.5 ::AND :=Krogstad: your friend to risk bumping into me; and now I also realize whom I have to thank 1.5 ::AND :=Krogstad: about the bush. There's still time, and I'd advise you to use your influence 1.5 ::AND :=Krogstad: you know about. I had to do something; and I don't think I was one of the worst. 1.5 ::AND :=Krogstad: bank was the first step on the ladder. And now your husband wants to kick me off 1.5 ::AND :=Krogstad: