They would look around and then disappear.
Perhaps they went to eat breakfast.

Sometimes Coupeau would take everyone for a drink--Boche, the two painters and any of Coupeau's friends who were nearby.

This meant another afternoon wasted.
Gervaise's patience was thoroughly exhausted, when, suddenly, everything was finished in two days, the paint varnished, the paper hung, and the dirt all cleared away.

The workmen had finished it off as though they were playing, whistling away on their ladders, and singing loud enough to deafen the whole neighborhood.
The moving in took place at once.

During the first few days Gervaise felt as delighted as a child.