Those who were simple frankly wondered at these things.
Certain of the captains, and certain even of the people, treated them with derision.

But by so doing they ran the risk of ill usage.

The inhabitants of the city believed in the Maid as firmly as in Our Lord.
From her they expected help and deliverance.

They summoned her in a kind of mystic ecstasy and religious frenzy.

The fever of the siege had become the fever of the Maid.[864] [Footnote 864: _Journal du siege_, p.