It was too simple and not interesting enough.
Actually Lantier climbed to the sixth floor to see her whenever he felt the impulse.

Mademoiselle Remanjou had often seen him coming out of the Coupeaus' at odd hours.
The situation was even more complicated by neighborhood gossip linking Lantier and Virginie.

The neighbors were a bit too hasty in this also; he had not even reached the stage of buttock-pinching with her.

Still, the Lorilleuxs delighted in talking sympathetically to Gervaise about the affair between Lantier and Virginie.

The Boches maintained they had never seen a more handsome couple.