These sudden outbursts of gaiety charmed Madame Raquin, who taxed her niece with being too serious.

The young woman, moreover, decked the window of her room with pots of flowers, and then had new paper hung in the apartment.

After this she wanted a carpet, curtains and rosewood furniture.
The nature of the circumstances seemed to have made this woman for this man, and to have thrust one towards the other.

The two together, the woman nervous and hypocritical, the man sanguineous and leading the life of a brute, formed a powerful couple allied.

The one completed the other, and they mutually protected themselves.