If this thing be so, he will quickly meet some messenger with the news.

If it be as you have said, if this battle has been fought and lost, then will I send you forth without a day's delay to join the King at Chinon." "So be it," answered the Maid; and turned herself to the chapel, where she spent the night in prayer.
It was Bertrand who rode forth in search of tidings, his heart burning within him.

It was he who nine days later entered Vaucouleurs again, weary and jaded, but with a great triumph light in his eyes.

He stood before De Baudricourt and spoke.
"It is even as the Maid hath said.

Upon the very day when we returned to Vaucouleurs, the English--a small handful of men--overthrew at Rouvray a large squadron of the French, utterly routing and well-nigh destroying them.