It is difficult to admit that they started from Vaucouleurs on the 23rd of February, and that about 660 kilometres were traversed in eleven days.] A few friends who had followed her so far watched her go.

Among them were her hosts, Henri Leroyer and Catherine, and Messire Jean Colin, canon of Saint-Nicolas, near Vaucouleurs, to whom Jeanne had confessed several times.[441] They trembled for their saint as they thought of the perils of the way and the length of the journey.
[Footnote 441: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.

431, 446.] "How can you," they asked her, "set forth on such a journey when there are men-at-arms on every hand ?" But out of the serene peace of her heart she answered them: "I do not fear men-at-arms; my way has been made plain before me.

If there be men-at-arms my Lord God will make a way for me to go to my Lord Dauphin.

For that am I come."[442] [Footnote 442: _Ibid._, p.