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2O Henrik Ibsen
husband, Nora says :
"
When Torvald gave me
money for clothes and so on, I never used more
than half of it; I always bought the simplest
things. . . . Torvald never noticed anything.
But it was often very hard, Christina dear. For
it s nice to be beautifully dressed. Now, isn t
it? . . . Well, and besides that, I made money in
other ways. Last winter I was so lucky I got
a heap of copying to do. I shut myself up every
evening and wrote far into the night. Oh, some
times I was so tired, so tired. And yet it was
splendid to work in that way and earn money. I
almost felt as if I was a man."
Down deep in the consciousness of Nora there
evidently slumbers personality and character,
which could come into full bloom only through a
great miracle not the kind Nora hopes for, but
a miracle just the same.
Nora had borrowed the money from Nils
Krogstad, a man with a shady past in the eyes of
the community and of the righteous moralist, Tor
vald Helmer. So long as Krogstad is allowed
the little breathing space a Christian people
grants to him who has once broken its laws, he is
reasonably human. He does not molest Nora.
But when Helmer becomes director of the bank in
which Krogstad is employed, and threatens the
man with dismissal, Krogstad naturally fights back.
For as he says to Nora:
"
If need be, I shall
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