Question

Report the following conversation (in about 50 words): 3

Nora: Poor Christine, you are a widow.

Mrs. Linde: Yes; it is three years ago now.

Nora: Yes, I knew; I saw in the papers. I assure you, Christine, I meant ever so often to write to you at the

time, but I always put it off and something always prevented me.

Mrs. Linde: I quite understand, dear.

Nora: It was very bad of me, Christine. Poor thing, how you must have suffered. And he left you nothing?

Mrs. Linde: No.

(Extracted from A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen)​

Answer 1

The following conversation is reported as follows:

Noora sympathised with Christine and said that she was a widow. Mrs. Linde affirmed it and further added that it was three years ago then.

Nora then said that she knew; she saw in the papers. She further assured Christine that she meant ever so often to write to her at the time, but she always put it off and something always prevented her.

Mrs. Linde said that she quite understood. Nora again said to Christine that it was very bad of her. She then said that she might have suffered. She inquired that if he left her anything.

Mrs. Linde responded her saying no.