A more reasonable fear was lest any mishap should occur on the road from Blois like that which had overtaken the force at Rouvray.

The Maid's comrades were infected with the anxieties of the townsfolk; one of them betrayed his fears to her, but she was not affected by them.

With the radiant tranquillity of the illuminated, she said:[998] "The Marshal will come.

I am confident that no harm will happen to him."[999] [Footnote 997: _Journal du siege_, pp.

51, 52.] [Footnote 998: Beaucroix, in his evidence, says it was Jean d'Aulon (_Trial_, vol.iii, p.