All they wanted was for him to insist on respect for his family.

_Mon Dieu_! If she, Madame Lorilleux, had acted like that, Coupeau wouldn't be so complacent.

He would have stabbed her for sure with his shears.
The Boches, however, who sternly disapproved of quarrels in their building, said that the Lorilleuxs were in the wrong.

The Lorilleuxs were no doubt respectable persons, quiet, working the whole day long, and paying their rent regularly.

But, really, jealousy had driven them mad.