Impatient to resolve his doubts, Gervais straightway provoked the damsel to a discussion on the Church's teaching in this matter.

Meanwhile, the Archbishop, Guillaume with the White Hands, turned his steed, and, followed by his monks, came to the vineyard where the clerk and the maiden were disputing together.

When he learnt the cause of their disagreement he ordered the maiden to be seized and brought into the town.

There he exhorted her, and, in charity, endeavoured to convert her to the Catholic Faith.
"She would not submit, however.

'I am not well enough grounded in doctrine to defend myself,' she said to him.