You shouldn't have let him go off." It was already half-past six.

Everything was burning now; the goose would be overdone.

Then Gervaise, feeling quite dejected, talked of sending someone to all the wineshops in the neighborhood to find Coupeau.

And as Goujet offered to go, she decided to accompany him.
Virginie, anxious about her husband went also.

The three of them, bareheaded, quite blocked up the pavement.