But when the doctors came, immediately the Jacob's ladder was drawn up.

Besides, the clerks were theologians, and she was a saint.

Relations are always strained between the heads of the Church Militant and those devout women who communicate directly with the Church Triumphant.

She realised that the revelations granted to her so abundantly inspired her most favourable judges with doubts, suspicion, and even mistrust.

She dared not confide to them much of the mystery of her Voices, and when the Churchmen were not present she told Alencon, her fair Duke, that she knew more and could do more than she had ever told all those clerks.[750] It was not to them she had been sent; it was not for them that she had come.