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A Doll s House 21
fight as though for my life to keep my little place
in the bank. . . . It s not only for the money:
that matters least to me. It s something else.
Well, I d better make a clean breast of it. Of
course you know, like every one else, that some
years ago I got into trouble. . . . The matter
never came into court; but from that moment all
paths were barred to me. Then I took up the
business you know about. I was obliged to grasp
at something; and I don t think I ve been one of
the worst. But now I must clear out of it all.
My sons are growing up; for their sake I must
try to win back as much respectability as I can.
This place in the bank was the first step, and now
your husband wants to kick me off the ladder,
back into the mire. Mrs. Helmer, you evidently
have no clear idea what you have really done.
But I can assure you that it was nothing more
and nothing worse that made me an outcast from
society. . . . But this I may tell you, that if I m
flung into the gutter a second time, you shall keep
me company."
Even when Nora is confronted with this awful
threat, she does not fear for herself, only for
Torvald, so good, so true, who has such an
aversion to debts, but who loves her so devotedly
that for her sake he would take the blame upon
himself. But this must never be. Nora, too, be
gins a fight for life, for her husband s life and that
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