When she returned in the evening, worn out, her eyelids heavy with exhaustion, it was to find the little wife of Olivier still behind the counter, bowed down, with a vague smile on her lips, in the same attitude as she had left her five hours previously.
Le soir, quand elle rentrait, éreintée, les paupières noires d'épuisement, elle retrouvait la petite femme d'Olivier, derrière le comptoir, affaissée, souriant d'un sourire vague, dans la même attitude où elle l'avait laissée cinq heures auparavant.