Indeed! A woman of her age ought to know how to turn herself round.

And he accused her of having always been a glutton.
Nevertheless, as one ought to hold out a helping hand, even to folks who don't deserve it, he tried to find her a little work.

Thus he had prevailed upon Virginie to let Gervaise come once a week to scrub the shop and the rooms.

That was the sort of thing she understood and on each occasion she earned her thirty sous.

Gervaise arrived on the Saturday morning with a pail and a scrubbing brush, without seeming to suffer in the least at having to perform a dirty, humble duty, a charwoman's work in the dwelling-place where she had reigned as the beautiful fair-haired mistress.