'No,' she answered, 'there were over a hundred wounded; but,' she added, 'I said to my people, "Be assured that you will raise the siege."'
'Were you wounded?' asked the priest.
'I was wounded,' Joan answered, 'at the assault of the fortress on the bridge. I was struck and wounded by an arrow or a dart; but I received much comfort from Saint Catherine, and I recovered in less than fifteen days. I recovered, and in spite of the wound I did not give up riding or working.'
'Did you know beforehand that you would be wounded?' asked Beaupère.
'Yes,' was the answer; 'and I had told my King I should be wounded. My saints had told me of it.'
'In what manner were you wounded?' he asked.
'I was,' she answered, 'the first to raise a ladder against the fortress at the bridge. While raising the ladder I was struck by the bolt.'
'Why,' now asked the priest, 'did you not come to terms with the English captains at Jargeau?'
'The knights about me,' she answered, 'told the English that they could not have a truce of fifteen days, which they wanted; but that they and their horses must leave the place at once.'
'And what did you say?'