Oh well, there was always something coming in.
Madame Goujet felt a motherly concern for Gervaise and sometimes reprimanded her.

This wasn't due to the money owed but because she liked her and didn't want to see her get into difficulties.

She never mentioned the debt.

In short, she behaved with the utmost delicacy.
The morrow of Gervaise's visit to the forge happened to be the last Saturday of the month.

When she reached the Goujets, where she made a point of going herself, her basket had so weighed on her arms that she was quite two minutes before she could get her breath.