Do you think your husband will come and pull you out of bed by the heels, because I happen to be sleeping with you ?" This idea that the drowned man might come and pull them out of bed by the heels, made the hair of Laurent stand on end, and he continued with greater violence, while still in the utmost terror himself.
"I shall have to take you some night to the cemetery.

We will open the coffin Camille is in, and you will see what he looks like! Then you will perhaps cease being afraid.

Go on, he doesn't know we threw him in the water." Therese with her head under the bedclothes, was uttering smothered groans.
"We threw him into the water, because he was in our way," resumed her husband.

"And we'll throw him in again, will we not?
Don't act like a child.

Show a little strength.