"Now look whether their faces or their backs be towards you." She was told that they had turned their backs and were going away.
Three times she had told them: "Depart from Orleans and your lives shall be saved." Now she asked that they should be allowed to go without more being required of them.
"It is not well pleasing to my Lord that they should be engaged to-day," she said.

"You will have them another time.

Come, let us give thanks to God."[1111] [Footnote 1111: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

296.] The _Godons_ were going.

During the night they had held a council of war and resolved to depart.[1112] In order to put a bold front on their retreat and to prevent its being cut off, they had faced the folk of Orleans for an hour, now they marched off in good order.[1113] Captain La Hire and Sire de Lore, curious as to which way they would take and desiring to see whether they would leave anything behind them, rode three or four miles in pursuit with a hundred or a hundred and twenty horse.