She was never too much occupied to receive those who came to her, and instantly he had her ear.
"My General," he said, "the Duke of Suffolk is close at hand.

We pressed him hard, and it seemed as though he would die sword in hand, ere he would yield.

But I did beg of him in his own tongues with which I am acquainted, not to throw away his noble life; whereupon he did look hard at me, pausing the while in thrust and parry, as all others did pause, for us to parley; and he said that he would give up his sword to THE MAID OF ORLEANS, and to none other.

Wherefore I did tell him that I would run and fetch her to receive his submission, or take him to her myself.

But then his mind did change, and he said to me, 'Are you noble ?' So I told him that my family was noble, but that I had not yet won my knighthood's spurs.