The youngsters listened, laughing to themselves, elated by the thought of being women.

What pleased them the most was when Lantier teased them, asking if they didn't already have little husbands.

Nana eventually admitted that she cared a great deal for Victor Fauconnier, son of her mother's employer.
"Ah well," said Madame Lorilleux to the Boches, as they were all leaving, "she's our goddaughter, but as they're going to put her into artificial flower-making, we don't wish to have anything more to do with her.

Just one more for the boulevards.

She'll be leading them a merry chase before six months are over." On going up to bed, the Coupeaus agreed that everything had passed off well and that the Poissons were not at all bad people.