I trow they could not look upon her, or hear her, without conviction of heart.
Nevertheless it is possible that the respect for popular enthusiasm led them to speak in such high praise of the Maid, and to add that she was in the right in assuming the dress which she wore.

For she had been sent to do man's work, and for this a man's garb was the only fitting one to wear.

And this ruling was heard with great acclamation of satisfaction; for her dress had been almost more commented upon than any other matter by some, and that the Church had set its sanction upon that which common sense deemed most right and fitting, robbed the most doubtful of all scruple, and gave to the Maid herself no small pleasure.
"I do in this, as in all other things, that which I have been bidden," she said.

"But I would not willingly act unseemly in the eyes of good men and virtuous women; wherefore I am glad that my judges have spoken thus, and I thank them from my heart for their gentle treatment of me." It was ever thus with the Maid.

No anger or impatience overset her sweet serenity and humility.