Once again her thoughts turned to Goujet and his affection for her.
One morning Clemence reported that the previous night, at about eleven o'clock, she had seen Monsieur Lantier with a woman.

She told about it maliciously and in coarse terms to see how Gervaise would react.

Yes, Monsieur Lantier was on the Rue Notre Dame de Lorette with a blonde and she followed them.

They had gone into a shop where the worn-out and used-up woman had bought some shrimps.

Then they went to the Rue de La Rochefoucauld.