She refused and with such insistence that he must have realised how difficult it is to influence a saint.

It was necessary for one of the lords who had brought her, the Sire de Rais or the Sire de Lore, to join his entreaties to those of the Bastard, and to say to her: "Assuredly you must go, for we promise to return to you shortly."[941] [Footnote 940: "_Ex tunc dictus deponens habuit bonam spem de ea et plus quam ante_," _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

6.] [Footnote 941: _Timens ne recedere vellent et quod opus remaneret imperfectum_, _Trial_, vol.iii, p.78._Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.
286.

_Chronique de la fete_, in the _Trial_, vol.v, p.285.

Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp.