396 _et seq._] A report ran through the towns and villages.

It was said that the son of the King of France, the Dauphin Louis, who had just entered his fifth year, had been recently betrothed to the daughter of the King of Scotland, the three-year-old Madame Margaret, and the common people celebrated this royal union with such rejoicings as were possible in a desolated country.[404] Jeanne, when she heard these tidings, said to the man-at-arms: "I must go to the Dauphin, for no one in the world, no king or duke or daughter of the King of Scotland, can restore the realm of France." [Footnote 404: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.436.

S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p.

cxci.] Then straightway she added: "In me alone is help, albeit for my part, I would far rather be spinning by my poor mother's side, for this life is not to my liking.

But I must go; and so I will, for it is Messire's command that I should go." She said what she thought.