But she pretended to take them for what they represented themselves to be.

She received them and had them conducted to her house without allowing any harm to come to them.

With a charitable jest she said: "One should never question priests."[1022] [Footnote 1021: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

106.] [Footnote 1022: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

289.] Before leaving the fort she confessed to Brother Pasquerel, her chaplain.