She was then asked if the voice was that of a male or of a female.
'It is a voice sent by God,' she only deigned to say to this.
Joan again asked for an interval of fifteen days, in order that she might better be able in that time to know how much she might reveal to her judges relating to her voices.
On being asked whether she believed the Almighty would be displeased at her telling the whole truth, she said that she had been ordered by the voices to reveal certain things to the King, and not to her judges; that her voices had told her that very night many things for the good of the King which he alone was to know.
But, asked Beaupère, could she not prevail on the voices to visit the King?
'I know not if the voices would consent,' she answered.
'But why,' then asked Beaupère, 'does the voice not speak to the King now, as it did formerly, when you were with him?'
'I know not if it be the wish of God,' Joan answered: 'without the grace of God I should be able to do nothing.'
This remark, most innocent to our comprehension, was afterwards made use of as a weapon to accuse the prisoner of the charge of heresy.
Later on in the day Beaupère asked Joan if the voice had form and features. This the prisoner refused to answer.