"Generally, the Voices say that I shall be delivered through great victory; and furthermore they say, 'Take all things peacefully; heed not thine affliction. Thence thou shalt come at last into the kingdom of Paradise.'"
The judges took up this question delightedly; it was one after their own hearts. Did she, they asked, feel assurance of salvation?
"As firmly as if I were in heaven already."
"Do you believe that, after this revelation, you could not sin mortally?"
"I know not. I leave it to God."
"Your answer (about her assurance of salvation) is very weighty."
"I hold it for a very great treasure."
"What with your attack on Paris on a holy day, your behavior in the matter of the Bishop's hackney, your leap at Beaurevoir, and your consent to the death of Franquet, do you really believe that you have wrought no mortal sin?"
"I do not believe that I am in mortal sin; and if I have been it is for God to know it, and for confession to God and the priest."[67]
She begged to be allowed to go to church. If she might hear mass she would wear woman's dress, changing it on her return for the page's dress which was her protection against insult. If she must die, she asked for a woman's shift, and a cap to cover her head; she would rather die than depart from the work for which her Lord had sent her.