Final answer:
The student asks about a character named Gerda and her father, but the provided text excerpts are from Ibsen's "A Doll's House" involving characters Nora and Torvald. As Gerda is not part of these excerpts, an accurate answer can't be provided without the correct context or text.
Step-by-step explanation:
It seems the student is referring to a conversation between characters Gerda and her father from an unspecified text, and without the specific passage, it's difficult to provide exact details about "Gerda's father's" intentions when he says, "Whatever you are thinking now is wrong."
However, broadly speaking, this type of statement suggests that Gerda may be misunderstanding a situation or contemplating something her father believes to be incorrect. As there is no direct reference to this scene in the provided excerpts, we cannot definitively state what promise Gerda makes to her father.
The provided excerpts are from Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, focusing on the strained relationship between Nora and her husband Torvald.
The excerpts reveal deep conflicts over moral questions, deceit, autonomy, and gender roles within their marriage, culminating in Nora's decision to leave Torvald to find her own identity.
This critical turning point in the play sheds light on Nora's recognition of her role as a 'doll' first to her father and then to her husband, mirroring a motif that could be likened to Gerda's situation.