Is it against the towers I must go, to assail them?
Or is it that Fastolffe comes against us with yet another host ?" Little Charlotte here pulled the Maid by the hand, crying out: "What are you saying?
To whom do you speak?
There is nobody here but you and me!" The Maid sprang to her feet, wide awake now in an instant.

She bent for one moment over the wondering child, and kissed her tenderly, as though to soothe the alarm in the baby eyes.
"Run to your mother, ma mie, for I must off and away on the instant," then wheeling round with her air of martial command, she called to me and said, "To arms at once! I must to the front! French blood is flowing.

They are seeking to act without me.

O my poor soldiers, they are falling and dying! To horse! to horse! I come to save them!" Was she dreaming?
What did it mean?
The town seemed as quiet as the still summer afternoon! Not a sound of tumult broke the silence of the streets.

Yet the Maid was having us arm her with lightning speed, and Bertrand had rushed off at the first word for her horse and ours.
"I know not what they are doing," spoke the Maid, "but my voices tell me to fly to their succour! Ah! why could they not have told me before! Have I not ever been ready and longing to lead them against the foe ?" She was ready now.