The Coupeaus sat down to eat a bite without much appetite, feeling hesitant about even raising a fork.

After lunch Lantier went to the undertaker's again with the ninety francs.

Thirty had come from Madame Lerat and Gervaise had run, with her hair all loose, to borrow sixty francs from Goujet.
Several of the neighbors called in the afternoon, mainly out of curiosity.

They went into the little room to make the sign of the cross and sprinkle some holy water with the boxwood sprig.

Then they sat in the shop and talked endlessly about the departed.