51 _et seq._] The whole day the manor of Reuilly was besieged by a procession of citizens, who could not forbear coming at the risk of their lives to see the promised Maid.

It was six o'clock in the evening before she left Checy.

The captains wanted her to enter the town at nightfall for fear of disorders and lest the crush around her should be too great.[950] Doubtless they passed along the broad valleys leading from Semoy towards the south, on the borders of the parishes of Saint-Marc and Saint-Jean-de-Braye.

On the way she said to those who rode with her: "Fear nothing.

No harm shall happen to you."[951] And indeed the only danger was for pedestrians.