CHAPTER V.HOW THE MAID JOURNEYED TO CHINON.
So the thing had come to pass at last--as she had always said it must.

Robert de Baudricourt was about to send her to the Court of the Dauphin at Chinon.

The weary days of waiting were at an end.
She was to start forthwith; she and her escort were alike ready, willing, and eager.

Her strange mystic faith and lofty courage seemed to have spread through the ranks of the chosen few who were to attend her.
I trow, had she asked it, half the men of Vaucouleurs would have gladly followed in her train; for the whole town was moved to its core by the presence of the Maid in its midst.

Almost were the townsfolk ready to worship her, only that there was something in her own simplicity and earnest piety which forbade such demonstration.