They would do this job in the evenings as a favor to him.

Still, installing the door and cleaning up the room cost over one hundred francs, not counting the wine that kept the work going.
Coupeau told his friends he'd pay them something later, out of the rent from his tenant.
Then the furniture for the room had to be sorted out.

Gervaise left mother Coupeau's wardrobe where it was, and added a table and two chairs taken from her own room.

She had to buy a washing-stand and a bed with mattress and bedclothes, costing one hundred and thirty francs, which she was to pay off at ten francs a month.

Although Lantier's twenty francs would be used to pay off these debts for ten months, there would be a nice little profit later.
It was during the early days of June that the hatter moved in.