Why was he badgered with such females as those?
Petticoats had taken to tracking him about now! Well! He declined to stir, they could go and eat their beastly dinner all by themselves.

To quiet him Goujet was obliged to accept a drop of something; and even then Coupeau took a fiendish delight in dawdling a good five minutes at the counter.

When he at length came out he said to his wife: "I don't like this.

It's my business where I go.

Do you understand ?" She did not answer.