This agonising anxiety haunted him even in his sleep.

One night he dreamed that he saw her fleeing with men-at-arms; and this dream was so vivid that he remembered it when he awoke.

For several days he said over and over again to his sons, Jean and Pierre: "If I really believed that what I dreamed of my daughter would ever come true, I would rather see her drowned by you; and if you would not do it I would drown her myself."[349] [Footnote 349: _Trial_, vol.i, pp.

131, 132, 219.] Isabelle repeated these words to her daughter hoping that they might alarm her and cause her to correct her ways.

Devout as she was, Jeanne's mother shared her father's fears.