{
  "title": "A Doll's House — Act 3 (Excerpt)",
  "source": "Henrik Ibsen (translated by William Archer), public domain",
  "text": "NORA: Sit down here, Torvald. You and I have much to say to one another.\n\nHELMER: Nora — what is this? — this cold, set face?\n\nNORA: Sit down. It will take some time; I have a lot to talk over with you.\n\nHELMER: You alarm me, Nora! — and I don't understand you.\n\nNORA: No, that is just it. You don't understand me, and I have never understood you either — before tonight. No, you mustn't interrupt me. You must simply listen to what I say. Torvald, this is a settling of accounts.\n\nHELMER: What do you mean by that?\n\nNORA: Is there not one thing that strikes you as strange in our sitting here like this?\n\nHELMER: What is that?\n\nNORA: We have been married now eight years. Does it not occur to you that this is the first time we two, you and I, husband and wife, have had a serious conversation?\n\nHELMER: What do you mean by serious?\n\nNORA: In all these eight years — longer than that — from the very beginning of our acquaintance, we have never exchanged a word on any serious subject."
}
