For her own part she had never met the fairies under the tree.

But she would not have said that she had not seen fairies elsewhere.[204] Fairies are not like angels; they do not always appear what they really are.[205] [Footnote 204: _Ibid._, pp.

178, 209 _et seq._] [Footnote 205: For the traditions of fairies at Domremy and for Jeanne's opinion of them, see _Trial_, index, under the word _Fees_.] Every year, on the fourth Sunday in Lent,--called by the Church "_Laetare_ Sunday," because during the mass of the day was chanted the passage beginning _Laetare Jerusalem_,--the peasants of Bar held a rustic festival.

This was their well-dressing when they went together to drink from some spring and to dance on the grass.

The peasants of Greux kept their festival at the Chapel of Notre-Dame de Bermont; those of Domremy at the Gooseberry Spring and at _l'Arbre-des-Fees_.[206] They used to recall the days when the lord and lady of Bourlemont themselves led the young people of the village.