“What was the sign you gave your King?”
“Will you be satisfied that I should perjure myself?”
“Have you promised and sworn to Saint Catherine that you will not tell this sign?”
“I promised and swore not to tell this sign, and for my own sake, because I was pressed too much to tell it, and then I said to myself: ‘I promise not to speak of it to any one in the world.’ The sign was that an Angel assured my King, in bringing him the crown, that he should have the whole realm of France, by the means of God’s help and my labours; that he was to start me on the work—that is to say, to give me men-at-arms; and that otherwise he would not be so soon crowned and consecrated.”
“Have you spoken to Saint Catherine since yesterday?”
“I have heard her since yesterday, and she has several times told me to reply boldly to the Judges on what they shall ask me touching my Case.”
“How did the Angel carry the crown? and did he place it himself on your King’s head?”
“The crown was given to an Archbishop—that is, to the Archbishop of Rheims—so it seems to me, in the presence of my King. The Archbishop received it, and gave it to the King. I was myself present. The crown was afterwards put among my King’s treasures.”
“To what place was the crown brought?”
“To the King’s Chamber, in the Castle of Chinon.”