ALTERNATE ENDING TO ACT III OF "A DOLL'S HOUSE." (I want to continue off after Nora slams the door on the way out, leaving Torvald, and the children.)



[The sound of a door shutting is heard below.]

TORVALD: The most wonderful thing...?

[Torvald paces around the room, holding his chin, looking up and down.]

TORVALD: What does she mean by "a real marriage?"

[He stops.]

TORVALD: She says she feels like she's treated like a "doll." That she feels she's being manipulated against her own will...

[Torvald tries to remember what Nora had said during their argument.]

TORVALD: She wants to find herself? What is she talking about? Has she gone mad?

[Upon turning to pace, Torvald catches a small glint at the corner of his eye.]

TORVALD: Hmm?

[He walks into his, and Nora's bedroom through the open door, and sees that the glimmer was coming from a small table mirror. He stares at his reflection, at first, not minding it. But, soon, he widens his eyes.]

TORVALD: ... I see, now.

[Torvald looks up into the ceiling of their bedroom, and starts speaking, silently.]

TORVALD: Nora... I think I understand, now. You left me because you felt this wasn't a real marriage. I thought you were completely insane when you left to "find yourself..." [Looking down.] But, now, I see that your departure really was for the best of both of us. [Slowly turning to the small mirror.] And the only way to make this a real, happy marriage... [Going towards the mirror, and picking it up, holding it in his hands.]

TORVALD: ... Is if we both find ourselves...

[He places the mirror on the night table, rather than on the drawer table.]