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26 Cards in this Set
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N: Oh, it's you, Kristine. There's no one else out there?How good that you've come.
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K: I hear you were up asking for me.
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N: Yes, I just stopped by. There's something you really can help me with. Let's get settled on the sofa. Look, there's going to be a costume party tomorrow evening at the Stemborgs' right above us, and now Torvald wants me to go as a Neopolitan peasant girl and dance the Tarantella that I learned in Capri.
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K: Really, are you giving a whole performance?
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N: Torvald says yes, I should. See, here's the dress. Torvald had it made for me down there; but now it's all so tattered that I don't know -
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K: Oh, we'll fix that up in no time. It's nothing more than the trimmings - they're a bit loose here and there. Needle and thread? Good, now we have what we need.
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N: Oh, how sweet of you!
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K: So you'll be in disguise tomorrow, Nora. You know what? I'll stop by then for a moment and have a look at you all dressed up. But listen, I've absolutely forgotten to thank you for that pleasant evening yesterday.
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N: I don't think it was as pleasant as usual yesterday... Torvald really knows how to give a home elegance and charm.
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K: And you do, too, if you ask me. You're not you're father's daughter for nothing. But tell me, is Dr. Rank always so down in the mouth as yesterday?
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N: No, that was quite an exception... -- and that's why the son's been sickly from birth.
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K: But my dearest Nora, how do you know such things?
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N: Hmp! When you've had three children, then you've had a few visits from -- from women who know something of medicine, and they tell you this and that.
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K: Does Dr. Rank come here every day?
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N: Every blessed day... Dr. Rank almost belongs to this house.
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K: But tell me - is he quite sincere? I mean, doesn't he rather enjoy flattering people?
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N: Just the opposite. Why do you think that?
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K: When you introduced us yesterday, he was proclaiming that he'd often heard my name in this house; but later I noticed that your husband hadn't the slightest idea who I really was. So how could Dr. Rank --?
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N: But it's all true, Kristine.... But with Dr. Rank I talk a lot about such things because he likes hearing about them.
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K: Now listen, Nora; in many ways you're still a child. I'm a good deal older than you, with a little more experience. I'll tell you something: you ought to put an end to all this with Dr. Rank.
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N: What should I put an end to?
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K: Both parts of it, I think. Yesterday you said something about a rich admirer who'd provide you with money --
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N: Yes, one who doesn't exist -- worse luck. So?
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K: Is Dr. Rank well off?
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N: Yes, he is.
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K: With no dependents?
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N: No, no one. But --
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K: And he's over here every day?
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N: Yes, I told you that.
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K: How can a man of such refinement be so grasping?
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N: I don't follow you at all.
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K: Now don't try to hide it, Nora. You think I cn't guess who loaned you the forty-eight hundred crowns?
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N: Are you out of your mind? ... What an intolerable situation that would have been!
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K: Then it really wasn't him.
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N: No, absolutely not. It never even crossed my mind for a moment -- and he had nothing to lend in those days; his inheritance came later.
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K: Well, I think that was a stroke of luck for you, Nora dear.
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N: No, it never even occured to me to ask Dr. Rank - still, I'm quite sure that if I had asked him --
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K: Which you won't, of course.
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N: No, of course not. I can't see that I'd ever need to. But I'm quite positive that if I talked to Dr. Rank --
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K: Behind your husband's back?
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N: I've got to clear up this other thing; that's also behind his back. I've got to clear it all up.
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K: Yes, I was saying that yesterday, but --
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N: A man handles these problems so much better than a woman --
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K: One's husband does, yes.
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N: Nonsense. When you pay everything you owe, then you get your note back, right?
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K: Yes, naturally.
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N: And can rip it into a million pieces and burn it up -- that filthy scrap of paper!
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K: Nora, you're hiding something from me.
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N: You can see it in my face?
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K: Something's happened to you since yesterday morning. Nora, what is it?
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N: Kristine! Shh! Torvald's home. Look, go in with the children a while. Torvald can't bear all this snipping and stitching. Let Anne-Marie help you.
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K: All right, but I'm not leaving here until we've talked this out.
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