"You think you are a man, but I declare you are a brute and a coward.
Yes, it is true, I am engaged to Mr. Bennet, and I defy you to say to
him what you have said to me."
Then I fled from his room to my own. I locked myself in there. He came
knocking at my door, and rattling at the handle, but I would not open
it, and then he called out:
"Nora, I am going away now--forever--never to come back, you
understand. You will never see my face again unless you come out and
speak to me now."
But I would not open my door. I heard him going down-stairs and the
slam of the front door. Now I realized what had happened. He had
actually gone! Never before had he left me like this. I opened my door,
went down-stairs, and then I saw him waiting for me in the living-room.
I tried to run back, but he was too quick for me. He sprang after me,
caught me in his arms, and half carried me up to his room. There he
locked the door, and put the key into his pocket. I wouldn't look at
him, I wouldn't speak to him. He came over, and tried to put his arms
about me, but I shoved him away, and he said in a voice I had never
heard from him before:
"So I've lost you, have I, Nora?" And then, as I would not answer him:
"So Bennet cut me out. That's it, is it?"