She counted the days; time dragged for her as for a woman with child.[414] [Footnote 414: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.

447.] At the end of January, feeling she could wait no longer, she resolved to go to the Dauphin Charles alone.

She clad herself in garments belonging to Durand Lassois, and with this kind cousin set forth on the road to France.[415] A man of Vaucouleurs, one Jacques Alain, accompanied them.[416] Probably these two men expected that the damsel would herself realise the impossibility of such a journey and that they would not go very far.

That is what happened.

The three travellers had barely journeyed a league from Vaucouleurs, when, near the Chapel of Saint Nicholas, which rises in the valley of Septfonds, in the middle of the great wood of Saulcy, Jeanne changed her mind and said to her comrades that it was not right of her to set out thus.
Then they all three returned to the town.[417] [Footnote 415: _Ibid._, vol.i, p.