She answered in a low voice: "In sooth they know not for what I did leave them.

They believed I went but to visit a sick friend.

I did not dare to tell them all, lest my father should hold me back: He is very slow to believe my mission; he chides me bitterly if ever word be spoken anent it.

Is it not always so when the Lord uses one of His children?
Even our Lord's brethren and sisters believed not on Him.

How can the servant be greater than his Lord ?" "You fear not, then, to disobey your parents ?" I had need to put this question; for it was one that De Baudricourt had insisted upon; for he knew something of Jacques d'Arc's opposition to his daughter's proposed campaign.
"I must obey my Lord even above my earthly parents," was her steadfast reply; "His word must stand the first.