Holy priests are with us to hear all, and to give absolution.

Let us start forth upon the morrow purified and blessed of God, and let us day by day renew that holy cleansing and blessing, that the Lord may indeed be with us and rest amongst us, and that His heart be not grieved and burdened by that which He shall see and hear amongst those to whom He has promised His help and blessing!" Thus she spoke; and a deep silence fell upon all, in the which it seemed to me the fall of a pin might have been heard.

The Maid sat quite still for a moment, her own head bent as though in prayer.
Then she lifted it, and a radiant smile passed over her face, a smile as of assurance and thankful joy.

She raised her hand and waved it, almost as though she blessed, whilst she greeted her soldiers, and then she turned her horse, the crowd making way for her in deep reverential silence, and rode towards her own lodging, where she remained shut up in her own room for the rest of the day.
But upon the following morning a strange thing had happened.

Every single camp follower--all the women and all the disorderly rabble that hangs upon the march of an army--had disappeared.