Oh! it was a good place for rheumatism.

Yet, if she had made up her mind to take it, their observations, of course, would not make her alter her decision.
That evening Gervaise frankly owned with a laugh that she would have fallen ill if she had been prevented from having the shop.

Nevertheless, before saying "it's done!" she wished to take Coupeau to see the place, and try and obtain a reduction in the rent.
"Very well, then, to-morrow, if you like," said her husband.

"You can come and fetch me towards six o'clock at the house where I'm working, in the Rue de la Nation, and we'll call in at the Rue de la Goutte-d'Or on our way home." Coupeau was then finishing the roofing of a new three-storied house.

It so happened that on that day he was to fix the last sheets of zinc.