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Nevertheless , before saying `` it 's done ! '' she wished to take Coupeau to see the place , and try and obtain a reduction in the rent . `` Very well , then , to-morrow , if you like , '' said her husband . `` You can come and fetch me towards six o'clock at the house where I 'm working , in the Rue de la Nation , and we 'll call in at the Rue de la Goutte-d'Or on our way home . '' Coupeau was then finishing the roofing of a new three-storied house . It so happened that on that day he was to fix the last sheets of zinc . As the roof was almost flat , he had set up his bench on it , a wide shutter supported on two trestles .