If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well. - Henrik Ibsen

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora — bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.
Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!

A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed, to their full human stature. That was where Aline's talent lay.

Do think it quite incomprehensible that a young girl — when it can be done — without any one knowing — should be glad to have a peep, now and then, into a world which — which she is forbidden to know anything about?