"Was the angel, who brought the sign, the angel who first appeared unto you or another?"
"It was always the same and never did he fail me."
"But inasmuch as you have been taken hath not the angel failed you with regard to the good things of this life?"
"Since it is Our Lord's good pleasure, I believe it was best for me to be taken."
"In the good things of grace hath not your angel failed you?"
"How can he have failed me when he comforteth me every day?"[745]
Maître Jean de la Fontaine then put her a subtle question and one as nearly approaching humour as was permissible in an ecclesiastical trial.
"Did Saint Denys ever appear to you?"[746]
Saint Denys, patron of the most Christian kings, Saint Denys, the war cry of France, had allowed the English to take his abbey, that rich church, to which queens came to receive their crowns, and wherein kings had their burying. He had turned English and Burgundian, and it was not likely he would come to hold converse with the Maid of the Armagnacs.
To the question: "Were you addressing God himself when you promised to remain a virgin?" she replied: