NORA.
It was, indeed.
KROGSTAD.
Your father was very ill, wasn't he?
NORA.
He was very near his end.
KROGSTAD.
And died soon afterwards?
NORA.
Yes.
KROGSTAD.
Tell me, Mrs. Helmer, can you by any chance remember what day your father died? — on what day of the month, I mean.
NORA.
Papa died on the 29th of September.
KROGSTAD.
That is correct; I have ascertained it for myself. And, as that is so, there is a discrepancy (taking a paper from his pocket) which I cannot account for.
NORA.
What discrepancy? I don't know —
KROGSTAD.
The discrepancy consists, Mrs. Helmer, in the fact that your father signed this bond three days after his death.
NORA.
What do you mean? I don't understand —
