She had suffered horrible agonies.
"Her husband caused it by kicking her in the stomach," she said in a monotone.

"He must have damaged her insides.

_Mon Dieu!_ She was in agony for three days with her stomach all swelled up.

Plenty of scoundrels have been sent to the galleys for less than that, but the courts won't concern themselves with a wife-beater.

Especially since the woman said she had hurt herself falling.