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man you are, and then you certainly won't keep your place.

Krogstad.

I asked whether it was only domestic unpleasantness you feared?

Nora.

If my husband gets to know about it, he will of course pay you off at once, and then we shall have nothing more to do with you.

Krogstad.

[Coming a pace nearer.] Listen, Mrs. Helmer: either your memory is defective, or you don't know much about business. I must make the position a little clearer to you.

Nora.

How so?

Krogstad.

When your husband was ill, you came to me to borrow twelve hundred dollars.

Nora.

I knew of nobody else.

Krogstad.

I promised to find you the money——

Nora.

And you did find it.

Krogstad.

I promised to find you the money, on certain conditions. You were so much taken up at the