KROGSTAD.
I promised to get you that amount —
NORA.
Yes, and you did so.
KROGSTAD.
I promised to get you that amount, on certain conditions. Your mind was so taken up with your husband's illness, and you were so anxious to get the money for your journey, that you seem to have paid no attention to the conditions of our bargain. Therefore it will not be amiss if I remind you of them. Now, I promised to get the money on the security of a bond which I drew up.
NORA.
Yes, and which I signed.
KROGSTAD.
Good. But below your signature there were a few lines constituting your father a surety for the money; those lines your father should have signed.
NORA.
Should? He did sign them.
KROGSTAD.
I had left the date blank; that is to say your father should himself have inserted the date on which he signed the paper. Do you remember that?
NORA.
Yes, I think I remember —
KROGSTAD.
Then I gave you the bond to send by post to your father. Is that not so?
NORA.
Yes.
KROGSTAD.
And you naturally did so at once, because five or six days afterwards you brought me the bond with your father's signature. And then I gave you the money.
NORA.
Well, haven't I been paying it off regularly?
KROGSTAD.
Fairly so, yes. But — to come back to the matter in hand — that must have been a very trying time for you, Mrs. Helmer?
