At first the Lorilleuxs had called two or three times a day, offering to sit up and watch, and even bringing an easy-chair for Gervaise.

Then it was not long before there were disputes as to the proper way to nurse invalids.

Madame Lorilleux said that she had saved enough people's lives to know how to go about it.

She accused the young wife of pushing her aside, of driving her away from her own brother's bed.

Certainly that Clump-clump ought to be concerned about Coupeau's getting well, for if she hadn't gone to Rue de la Nation to disturb him at his job, he would never had fallen.