As the queen advanced, her astonishment increased as she saw the coldness of the people and the solemn, constrained air of the great men who escorted her.

Many anxious thoughts alarmed her, and she even went so far as to fear some intrigue of the King of Hungary.

Scarcely had her cortege arrived at Castle Arnaud, when the nobles, dividing into two ranks, let the queen pass with her counsellor Spinelli and two women; then closing up, they cut her off from the rest of her suite.
After this, each in turn took up his station as guardian of the fortress.
There was no room for doubt: the queen was a prisoner; but the cause of the manoeuvre it was impossible to guess.

She asked the high dignitaries, and they, protesting respectful devotion, refused to explain till they had news from Avignon.

Meanwhile all honours that a queen could receive were lavished on Joan; but she was kept in sight and forbidden to go out.