“No.”
“Did you think you did well in taking the dress of a man?”
“I did well to do whatsoever thing God commanded me to do.”
“But in this particular case do you think you did well in taking the dress of a man?”
“I have done nothing but by command of God.”
Beaupere made various attempts to lead her into contradictions of herself; also to put her words and acts in disaccord with the Scriptures. But it was lost time. He did not succeed. He returned to her visions, the light which shone about them, her relations with the King, and so on.
“Was there an angel above the King’s head the first time you saw him?”
“By the Blessed Mary!—”
She forced her impatience down, and finished her sentence with tranquillity: “If there was one I did not see it.”
“Was there light?”