She went to work again bravely on the following day, as though nothing had happened.

But her husband, with sullen rancour, rose late and passed the remainder of the day smoking his pipe in the sunshine.
From that time forward the Macquarts adopted the kind of life which they were destined to lead in the future.

It became, as it were, tacitly understood between them that the wife should toil and moil to keep her husband.

Fine, who had an instinctive liking for work, did not object to this.

She was as patient as a saint, provided she had had no drink, thought it quite natural that her husband should remain idle, and even strove to spare him the most trifling labour.