"The Church is too indulgent!"
"Think of accepting the penitence of so infamous a cheat!"
"Upon my word, comrades, she is quite capable of being possessed of the devil as the English claimed! The strumpet and liar!"
"And yet her victories were none the less brilliant for all that!"
"Aye! through witchcraft! Are you going to show pity for the liar?"
"Fear of the fagot makes one admit many a thing!"
"Then she is a coward! She has not the courage to uphold the truth in the face of death! What faint-heartedness!"
Silence is restored only by degrees. Joan Darc hears the frightful accusations hurled at her. To return to her first declarations would be an admission of fear. Her mind wanders again.
Continuing to read from the formula of abjuration, Bishop Cauchon says: "'Secondly, I, Joan, confess to have grievously sinned by seducing people with superstitious divinations, by blaspheming the angels and the saints, and by despising the divine law of Holy Writ and the canonical laws.'" Addressing Joan the Bishop asks: "Do you confess it?'
"I confess it!" murmurs Joan.