28.] The curious part of Jeanne's case is that her parents were against her, and on the side of the young man.

It was in defiance of their wishes that she defended the suit and appeared before the official.
Later she declared that in this matter she had disobeyed them, and that it was the only time she had failed in the submission she owed her parents.[370] [Footnote 370: _Trial_, vol.i, p.

219: _quibus obediebat in omnibus, nisi in processu Tullensi_.] The journey from Neufchateau to Toul and back involved travelling more than twenty leagues on foot, over roads infested with bands of armed men, through a country desolated by fire and sword, from which the peasants of Domremy had recently fled in a panic.

To such a journey, however, she made up her mind against the will of her parents.
Possibly she may have appeared before the judge at Toul, not once but two or three times.

And there was a great chance of her having to journey day and night with her so-called betrothed, for he was passing over the same road at the same time.