"We don't even know how they met, or, we know only too well, but that's not for us to discuss.

My husband even had to buy the wedding ring.

We were scarcely out of bed this morning when he had to lend them ten francs.

And, not a member of her family at her wedding, what kind of bride is that?
She says she has a sister in Paris who works for a pork butcher.

Why didn't she invite her ?" She stopped to point at Gervaise, who was limping awkwardly because of the slope of the pavement.