About seven o'clock
While Lantier and Gervaise were silently occupied with the dead Coupeau lay and snored . Gervaise hunted in a bureau to find a little crucifix which she had brought from Plassans , when she suddenly remembered that Mamma Coupeau had sold it . They each took a glass of wine and sat by the stove until daybreak . About seven o'clock Coupeau woke . When he heard what had happened he declared they were jesting . But when he saw the body he fell on his knees and wept like a baby . Gervaise was touched by these tears and found her heart softer toward her husband than it had been for many a long year .