1 Naturally you are thinking of your father.
2 Yes, but your father gave you the necessary funds.
3 Your father had always plenty of those ready, too.
4 I have no father to give me money for a journey, Nora.
5 Then I gave you the bond to send by post to your father.
6 Your father's reputation as a public official was not above suspicion.
7 My poor innocent spine has to suffer for my father's youthful amusements.
8 My little Nora, there is an important difference between your father and me.
9 And so do you, it seems to me; you are not your father's daughter for nothing.
10 According to it a woman has no right to spare her old dying father, or to save her husband's life.
11 The discrepancy consists, Mrs Helmer, in the fact that your father signed this bond three days after his death.
12 It seems most commonly to be the mother's influence, though naturally a bad father's would have the same result.
13 I had left the date blank; that is to say, your father should himself have inserted the date on which he signed the paper.
14 And you naturally did so at once, because five or six days afterwards you brought me the bond with your father's signature.
15 But below your signature there were a few lines constituting your father a surety for the money; those lines your father should have signed.
16 Well, of course it can be explained; your father may have forgotten to date his signature, and someone else may have dated it haphazard before they knew of his death.