But Coupeau must have known that Lantier was there.

Gervaise almost went out of her senses on hearing him grunt: "Yes, my duck, there's a young fellow of our acquaintance inside there! You mustn't take me for a ninny.

Don't let me catch you gallivanting about again with your side glances!" And he made use of some very coarse expressions.

It was not him that she had come to look for with her bare elbows and her mealy mouth; it was her old beau.

Then he was suddenly seized with a mad rage against Lantier.