Nora. Hello Kristine, I decided to leave Torvald, and I was wondering if I could stay with you for the night?

Mrs L. Of course you can, but why did you leave your husband?

Nora. The most wonderful thing in the world didn’t happen, and I came to realize that I was just a doll to him. Tonight for the first time ever we sat down and had a conversation about something important. Then I figured out that Torvald didn’t care about me and I was only a possession to him.

Mrs L. But what of your children?

Nora. I am leaving them with him, they will most likely be better off with him and besides, he wouldn’t allow me to take them with me if I tried.

Mrs L. Well Nora, you helped me when I was in need so it is only fair for me to do the same for you.

[For the fourteen years following her stay with mrs. Linde, Nora wanders around t he streets of her home town doing jobs wherever she could but fails repeatedly to keep in a steady line of work. Due to her poverty her good looks quickly fade away and she becomes sick and malnourished to the point where she can no longer earn a living for herself and is forced to become a beggar in order to survive.]

Nora. Excuse me sir could you spare a shilling for a poor old woman?

[The man continues walking as if she wasn't there.]

Nora. Ah! My life is filled with woe, I am trapped in a world of strangers who would sooner let me die than give me even the smallest of change! At least when I was with that stranger Torvald, he kept me in good health. Oh! Excuse me sir do you have any spare change?

[The man has a look of disgust cross over his face, then he continues to walk on as if Nora wasn't there. Distraught over the cruelty which the world has brought down upon her she begins to cry, her sobbing attracts the attention of a nearby bank manager.]

John. Excuse me, are you okay?

Nora. No I am not okay, I have lived the last fourteen years of my life starving because I left my husband when I found out that he didn’t love me and never would.

John. How do you know that he didn’t love you? And how did know know that he never would?

Nora. A few days before I left him a man named Krogstad whom I borrowed money from came and demanded that I make my husband who recently became manager of the bank he was working at allow him to keep his job. My husband refused and Krogstad gave him a letter telling him of how I forged my father’s name on the bond. Then my husband did the most despicable thing ever, He began talking of how he was now that man’s slave, all because of me. He said that I wouldn’t be allowed to raise my children and said he loved me no more. A short while later another letter arrived and it had the bond in it, My husband then acted towards me completely differently and said he forgave me, that is why I left him.

John. Pardon my asking but was your husband’s name Torvald Helmer?

Nora. Yes, did you know him?

John. No but my father told me all about him, within a year after you left him Torvald killed himself and my father became the bank manager, and I superseded him in that position after he died. Do you remember a Kristine Linde?

Nora. Yes I stayed with her and Krogstad after I left my husband.

John. She made me promise that I would take care of Nora Helmer if she ever needed help, do you need help?

[Nora moved in with John and his family, she continued to be sick and just six weeks after moving in she died.]