789-797.
Douhet, _Dictionnaire des legendes_, 1855, pp.

824-836.] My Lord Saint Michael, the Archangel, did not forget his promise.

The ladies Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret came as he had said.

On their very first visit the young peasant maid vowed to them to preserve her virginity as long as it should please God.[278] If there were any meaning in such a promise, Jeanne, however old she may then have been, could not have been quite a child.

And it seems probable that the angel and the saints appeared to her first when she was on the threshold of womanhood, that is, if she ever became a woman.[279] [Footnote 278: _Trial_, vol.i, p.128.Hinzelin, _Chez Jeanne d'Arc_, p.29.When we come to the trial, we shall consider whether it be possible to reconcile Jeanne's assertions with regard to this vow.] [Footnote 279: _Trial_, vol.i, p.