'They believed,' Joan answered, 'that there was nothing in me against matters of religion.'
Then Beaupère asked the prisoner if she had visited Sainte Catherine de Fierbois.
'Yes,' she answered; 'I heard mass there twice in one day, on my way to Chinon.'
'How did you communicate your message to the King?'
'I sent a letter asking him if I might be allowed to see him. That I had come one hundred and fifty miles to bring him assistance, and that I had much to do for him. I think,' she added, 'that I also said I should know him amongst all those who might be present.'
'Did you then wear a sword?' asked Beaupère.
'I had one that I had taken at Vaucouleurs.'
'Had you not another one as well?'
'Yes; I had sent to the church of Fierbois, either from Troyes or Chinon, for a sword from the back of the altar of Sainte Catherine. It was found, much rusted.'