To the question: "What language do your Voices speak ?" Jeanne replied: "A better one than yours."[766] [Footnote 766: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

204.] Even saints may lose patience.

If Brother Seguin did not know it before, he learnt it that day.

And what business had he to doubt that Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret, who were on the side of the French, spoke French?
Such a doubt Jeanne could not bear, and she gave her questioner to understand that when one comes from Limousin one does not inquire concerning the speech of heavenly ladies.
Notwithstanding he pursued his interrogation: "Do you believe in God ?" "Yes, more than you do," said the Maid, who, knowing nothing of the good Brother, was somewhat hasty in esteeming herself better grounded in the faith than he.
But she was vexed that there should be any question of her belief in God, who had sent her.

Her reply, if favourably interpreted, would testify to the ardour of her faith.