1 The NURSE comes in with the children.
2 Show it, then; think of my little children.
3 Both yours and the children's, my darling Nora.
4 Oh well, young children easily get accustomed to anything.
5 I know I shall often think of you, the children, and this house.
6 I want to be a mother to someone, and your children need a mother.
7 The NURSE comes forward with the children; NORA shuts the hall door.
8 Be sure the children do not see it until this evening, when it is dressed.
9 Each breath the children take in such a house is full of the germs of evil.
10 Such a thing couldn't happen; it is impossible--I have three little children.
11 But I shall not allow you to bring up the children; I dare not trust them to you.
12 NORA takes off the children's things and throws them about, while they all talk to her at once.
13 I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
14 This Krogstad, now, has been persistently poisoning his own children with lies and dissimulation; that is why I say he has lost all moral character.
15 Just think how a guilty man like that has to lie and play the hypocrite with every one, how he has to wear a mask in the presence of those near and dear to him, even before his own wife and children.