She had lied, the good lady! In his exasperation, Monsieur Bovary the elder, smashing a chair on the flags, accused his wife of having caused misfortune to the son by harnessing him to such a harridan, whose harness wasn't worth her hide.

They came to Tostes.
Explanations followed.

There were scenes.

Heloise in tears, throwing her arms about her husband, implored him to defend her from his parents.
Charles tried to speak up for her.

They grew angry and left the house.
But "the blow had struck home." A week after, as she was hanging up some washing in her yard, she was seized with a spitting of blood, and the next day, while Charles had his back turned to her drawing the window-curtain, she said, "O God!" gave a sigh and fainted.