Upon her saying this, Cauchon lost all control, and he stormed and threatened her with instant condemnation if she refused to take the oath. 'All the clergy in Paris and Rouen could not condemn me,' was the proud answer, 'if they had not the right to do so.' But, as on the previous occasions, she said she would willingly answer all questions relating to her deeds since leaving her home, but that it would take many days for her to tell them all. Wearied with the persistence and threats of her arch-tormentor, Cauchon, Joan said that she had been sent by God and wished to return to God. 'I have nothing more to do here,' she added. Beaupere was again ordered to cross-examine the prisoner. He began by asking her when she had last eaten. 'Not since yesterday at mid-day,' she said. (It was then Lent.) Beaupere then began again to question her regarding the voice. When had she last heard it? 'On the previous day,' Joan said, 'and also on that day too.' 'At what o'clock of the day before?' Thrice she had heard the voice in the morning, and once at the hour of Vespers, and again when the _Ave Maria_ was being sung. 'What were you doing,' asked Beaupere, 'when the voices called you?' 'I was sleeping,' answered Joan, 'and the voice awoke me.' 'Did it awake you by touching your arm?' 'The voice awoke me without its touching me.' 'Was it in your room?' 'Not that I know, but it was in the castle.' 'Did you acknowledge it by kneeling?' 'I acknowledged its presence by sitting up and clasping my hands. I had begged for its help.' 'And what did it say to you?' 'It told me to answer boldly.' 'Tell us more clearly what it said to you.' 'I asked its advice in what I should answer, and bade it ask the Saviour for counsel. And the voice said, "Answer boldly; God will help you."' 'Had it said anything to you before you interrupted it?' 'Some words it had said which I did not clearly comprehend; but when fully awake I understood it to tell me to answer boldly.' Then, emboldened as it seemed by the recollection of that voice, she turned to Cauchon and exclaimed, 'You, Bishop, you tell me that you are my judge--have a care how you act, for in truth I am sent by God, and your position is one of great peril.' Then Beaupere broke in again, and asked Joan of Arc if the voice had ever altered its advice, and whether it had told Joan not to answer all the questions that would be put to her. 'I cannot answer you about that,' said Joan. 'I have revelations of matters concerning the King which I shall not reveal.' The Maid then asked whether she might wait for fifteen days, in order that, by that time, she might know whether she might, or might not, answer questions relating to this point. The priest then asked whether she knew that the voice came from God. 'Yes,' she answered, 'and by this order--that,' she continued, 'I believe as firmly as I believe the Christian religion, and that God has saved us from the pains of hell.'