She felt awkward in their presence, and their manners were the occasion of that irritation which is discernible in more than one of her replies.[751] Sometimes when they questioned her she retreated to the end of her bench and sulked.
[Footnote 750: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

92.] [Footnote 751: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

275.] "We come to you from the King," said Maitre Pierre de Versailles.
She replied with a bad grace: "I am quite aware that you are come to question me again.

I don't know A from B."[752] But to the question: "Wherefore do you come ?" she made answer eagerly: "I come from the King of Heaven to raise the siege of Orleans, and take the King to be crowned and anointed at Reims.

Maitre Jean Erault, have you ink and paper?
Write what I shall tell you." And she dictated a brief manifesto to the English captains: "You, Suffort, Clasdas, and La Poule, in the name of the King of Heaven I call upon you to return to England."[753] [Footnote 752: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.