1 As I am now, I am no wife for you.
2 I want to be with you, my darling wife.
3 Before all else, you are a wife and a mother.
4 But you are my wife, whatever becomes of you.
5 Well, we will share it, Nora, as man and wife should.
6 You have loved me as a wife ought to love her husband.
7 No, a wife cannot borrow without her husband's consent.
8 Let your wife go dressed just as she is in everyday life.
9 Alas, Torvald, you are not the man to educate me into being a proper wife for you.
10 No, my dear fellow, I won't disturb you; I would rather go in to your wife for a little while.
11 I have heard that when a wife deserts her husband's house, as I am doing now, he is legally freed from all obligations towards her.
12 It seems as if that had made her, as it were, doubly his own; he has given her a new life, so to speak; and she has in a way become both wife and child to him.
13 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.