“I made an assault there; but I neither threw, nor caused to be thrown, Holy Water by way of aspersion.”
“Why did you not enter La Charité, if you had command from God to do so?”
“Who told you I had God’s command for it?”
“Did you not have counsel of your Voice?”
“I wished to go into France. The men-at-arms told me it was better to go first to La Charité.”
“Were you a long time in the Tower at Beaurevoir?”
“About four months. When I knew that the English were come to take me, I was very angry; nevertheless, my Voices forbade me many times to leap. In the end, for fear of the English, I leaped, and commended myself to God and Our Lady. I was wounded. When I had leaped, the Voice of Saint Catherine said to me I was to be of good cheer,[[58]] for those at Compiègne would have succour. I prayed always for those at Compiègne, with my Counsel.”
“What did you say when you had leaped?”
“Some said I was dead. As soon as the Burgundians saw I was alive, they reproached me with having leapt.”
“Did you not say then, that you would rather die than be in the hands of the English?”