_Nora_. Indeed, you were perfectly right. I am not fit for the task. There is another task I must undertake first. I must try and educate myself--you are not the man to help me in that. I must do that for myself. And that is why I am going to leave you now. _Helmer_ (_springing up_). What do you say? _Nora_. I must stand quite alone, if I am to understand myself and everything about me. It is for that reason that I cannot remain with you any longer. _Helmer_. Nora, Nora! _Nora_. I am going away from here now, at once. I am sure Christine will take me in for the night-- _Helmer_. You are out of your mind! I won't allow it! I forbid you! _Nora_. It is no use forbidding me anything any longer. I will take with me what belongs to myself. I will take nothing from you, either now or later. _Helmer_. What sort of madness is this! _Nora_. Tomorrow I shall go home--I mean to my old home. It will be easiest for me to find something to do there. _Helmer_. You blind, foolish woman! _Nora_. I must try and get some sense, Torvald. _Helmer_. To desert your home, your husband and your children! And you don't consider what people will say! _Nora_. I cannot consider that at all. I only know that it is necessary for me. _Helmer_. It's shocking. This is how you would neglect your most sacred duties. _Nora_. What do you consider my most sacred duties? _Helmer_. Do I need to tell you that? Are they not your duties to your husband and your children? _Nora_. I have other duties just as sacred. _Helmer_. That you have not. What duties could those be? _Nora_. Duties to myself. _Helmer_. Before all else, you are a wife and mother. _Nora_. I don't believe that any longer. I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one. I know quite well, Torvald, that most people would think you right, and that views of that kind are to be found in books; but I can no longer content myself with what most people say, or with what is found in books. I must think over things for myself and get to understand them. _Helmer_. Can you not understand your place in your own home? Have you not a reliable guide in such matters as that?--have you no religion? _Nora_. I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. _Helmer_. What are you saying? _Nora_. I know nothing but what the clergyman said, when I went to be confirmed. He told us that religion was this, and that, and the other. When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me. _Helmer_. This is unheard of in a girl of your age! But if religion cannot lead you aright, let me try and awaken your conscience. I suppose you have some moral sense? Or--answer me--am I to think you have none?