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Krogstad arrives and tells Nora that he is worried he will be fired.

He asks her to help him keep his job and says that he will fight desperately to keep it.

Nora is reluctant to commit to helping him, so Krogstad reveals that he knows she committed forgery on the bond she signed for her loan from him.

As a woman, she needed an adult male co-signer, so she said she would have her father do so.

However the signature is dated three days after his death, which suggests that it is a forgery.

Nora admits that she did forge the signature, so as to spare her dying father further worry about her ( she was pregnant, poor, and had a seriously ill husband ).

Krogstad explains that the forgery betrayed his trust and is also a serious crime.

If he told others about it, her reputation would be ruined, as was his after a similar " indiscretion ," even though he was never prosecuted.

He implies that what he did was in order to provide for his sick wife, who later died.