457.] Jean de Metz was filled with no such ardent faith in the prophetess, since he inquired of her: "Will you really do what you say ?" To which she replied: "Have no fear.

I do what I am commanded to do.
My brethren in Paradise tell me what I have to do.

It is now four or five years since my brethren in Paradise and Messire told me that I must go forth to war to deliver the realm of France."[451] [Footnote 451: _Ibid._, pp.

437, 438.] These rude comrades did not all preserve an attitude of religious respect in her presence.

Certain mocked her and diverted themselves by talking before her as if they belonged to the English party.
Sometimes, as a joke, they got up a false alarm and pretended to turn back.