The idea that their daughter was in danger of becoming a worthless creature was a cruel thought to these good people.

In those troubled times there was a whole multitude of these wild women whom the men-at-arms carried with them on horseback.

Each soldier had his own.
It is not uncommon for saints in their youth by the strangeness of their behaviour to give rise to such suspicions.

And Jeanne displayed those signs of sainthood.

She was the talk of the village.