She did not hurry herself.
She grinned in her vicious way.
"Why yes, mamma, I should like to," she ended by declaring.
Then the matter was at once settled.

Coupeau was quite willing that Madame Lerat should take the child with her on the morrow to the place where she worked in the Rue du Caire.

And they all talked very gravely of the duties of life.

Boche said that Nana and Pauline were women now that they had partaken of communion.

Poisson added that for the future they ought to know how to cook, mend socks and look after a house.
Something was even said of their marrying, and of the children they would some day have.