Nora monologue (Act 1) — A Doll's House

How fresh and well you look! Such red cheeks like apples and roses. _[The children all talk at once while she speaks to them.]_ Have you had great fun? That’s splendid! What, you pulled both Emmy and Bob along on the sledge? —both at once?—that was good. You are a clever boy, Ivar. Let me take her for a little, Anne. My sweet little baby doll! _[Takes the baby from the MAID and dances it up and down.]_ Yes, yes, mother will dance with Bob too. What! Have you been snowballing? I wish I had been there too! No, no, I will take their things off, Anne; please let me do it, it is such fun. Go in now, you look half frozen. There is some hot coffee for you on the stove.