If the Coupeaus only used up their small savings, they would be very lucky indeed.

They would probably have to do into debt.

Well, that was to be expected and it was their business.

They had no right to expect any help from the family, which couldn't afford the luxury of keeping an invalid at home.
It was just Clump-clump's bad luck, wasn't it?
Why couldn't she have done as others did and let her man be taken to hospital?
This just showed how stuck up she was.
One evening Madame Lorilleux had the spitefulness to ask Gervaise suddenly: "Well! And your shop, when are you going to take it ?" "Yes," chuckled Lorilleux, "the landlord's still waiting for you." Gervaise was astonished.

She had completely forgotten the shop; but she saw the wicked joy of those people, at the thought that she would no longer be able to take it, and she was bursting with anger.