"Three hundred francs for the nurse, fifty for your journey and expenses, that's three hundred and fifty.
Fifty francs I keep." The big difficulty was how to find change.

There were not ten francs in the house.

But they did not even address themselves to Mme Maloir who, never having more than a six-sou omnibus fair upon her, was listening in quite a disinterested manner.

At length Zoe went out of the room, remarking that she would go and look in her box, and she brought back a hundred francs in hundred-sou pieces.

They were counted out on a corner of the table, and Mme Lerat took her departure at once after having promised to bring Louiset back with her the following day.
"You say there's company there ?" continued Nana, still sitting on the chair and resting herself.
"Yes, madame, three people." And Zoe mentioned the banker first.