“Not that I know.”
“When you promised Our Saviour to preserve your virginity, was it to Him that you spoke?”
“It would quite suffice that I give my promise to those who were sent by Him—that is to say, to Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret.”
“Who induced you to have cited a man of the town of Toul on the question of marriage?”
“I did not have him cited; it was he, on the contrary, who had me cited; and then I swore before the Judge to speak the truth. And besides, I had promised nothing to this man. From the first time I heard my Voices, I dedicated my virginity for so long as it should please God; and I was then about thirteen years of age. My Voices told me I should win my case in this town of Toul.”
“As to your visions, did you speak of them to your Curé or to any other Churchman?”
“No; only to Robert de Baudricourt and to my King. It was not my Voices who compelled me to keep them secret; but I feared to reveal them, in dread that the Burgundians might put some hindrance in the way of my journey; and, in particular, I was afraid that my father would hinder it.”
“Do you think that you did right to go without leave from your father or mother, when you should ‘honour your father and mother’?”
“In all things I obeyed them well, except in that of the journey: but afterwards I wrote to them, and they forgave me.”
“When you left your father and mother, do you think you sinned?”