HELMER.
Nora — can I never be anything more than a stranger to you?
NORA.
(taking her bag). Ah, Torvald, the most wonderful thing of all would have to happen.
HELMER.
Tell me what that would be!
NORA.
Both you and I would have to be so changed that — . Oh, Torvald, I don't believe any longer in wonderful things happening.
HELMER.
But I will believe in it. Tell me? So changed that — ?
NORA.
That our life together would be a real wedlock. Good-bye. (She goes out through the hall.)
HELMER.
(sinks down on a chair at the door and buries his face in his hands). Nora! Nora! (Looks round, and rises.) Empty. She is gone. (A hope flashes across his mind.) The most wonderful thing of all — ?
(The sound of a door shutting is heard from below.)
