'When you arrived at Compiègne did many days elapse before you made the sortie?'
'I arrived secretly at an early hour of the morning, and entered the town so that the enemy could not be aware of my arrival, and the same day, in the evening, I made the sortie in which I was captured.'
'Were the bells of the church rung on the occasion of your arrival?'
'If they were, it was not by my command. I had not given it a thought.'
'Did you not order them to be rung?'
'I have no recollection of having done so.'
'Did you make the sortie by the command of your voices?'
'Last Easter, when in the trenches of Melun, the voices of Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret told me I should be taken prisoner before St. John's Day; but that I was to keep a brave heart, and take all that befell me with patience, and that in the end God would come to my aid.'
'Since then, did your voices tell you that you would be taken?'
'Yes, often; nearly every day; and I implored my voices that when I was taken I might then die, and not suffer a long imprisonment: and the voices said, "Be without fear, for these things must happen." But they did not tell me the time when I should be taken, for had I known that I should not have made that sortie.'