She listened to her Voices alone, and they spoke to her words which were infinitely simple.

Her one idea was to accomplish her mission.

Saint Catherine, Saint Margaret and Saint Michael the Archangel, had sent her into France not to calculate the resources of the royal treasury, not to decree aids and taxes, not to treat with men-at-arms, with merchants and the conductors of convoys, not to draw up plans of campaign and negotiate truces, but to lead the Dauphin to his anointing.

Wherefore it was to Reims that she wished to take him, not that she knew how to go there, but she believed that God would guide her.

Delay, tardiness, deliberation saddened and irritated her.