She was then asked if the voice was that of a male or of a female. 'It is a voice sent by God,' she only deigned to say to this. Joan again asked for an interval of fifteen days, in order that she might better be able in that time to know how much she might reveal to her judges relating to her voices. On being asked whether she believed the Almighty would be displeased at her telling the whole truth, she said that she had been ordered by the voices to reveal certain things to the King, and not to her judges; that her voices had told her that very night many things for the good of the King which he alone was to know. But, asked Beaupere, could she not prevail on the voices to visit the King? 'I know not if the voices would consent,' she answered. 'But why,' then asked Beaupere, 'does the voice not speak to the King now, as it did formerly, when you were with him?' 'I know not if it be the wish of God,' Joan answered: 'without the grace of God I should be able to do nothing.' This remark, most innocent to our comprehension, was afterwards made use of as a weapon to accuse the prisoner of the charge of heresy. Later on in the day Beaupere asked Joan if the voice had form and features. This the prisoner refused to answer. 'There is a saying among children,' she said, 'that one is sometimes hanged for speaking the truth.' On being asked by Beaupere if she was sure of being in a state of grace--a question to which he had carefully led up, and whereby Cauchon hoped to entrap her into a statement which might be used in the accusation of heresy he was now framing against Joan of Arc--her answer even disarmed the Bishop. 'If I am not, may God place me in it; if I am already, may He keep me in it.' When that test question had been put to the prisoner, one of the judges, guessing the object of its being made, expostulated, to Cauchon's rage--who roughly bade him hold his peace. To that triumphant reply Joan of Arc added these words: 'If I am not in God's grace I should be the most unhappy being in the world, and I do not think, were I living in sin, that my voices would come to me. Would,' she cried, 'that every one could hear them as well as I do myself!' Beaupere then asked her about her childhood, and when she had first heard the voices. Asked if there were many people at Domremy in favour of the Burgundians, she said she only knew of one individual. Then came a string of questions about the fairy-well, the haunted oak-tree. All these questions Joan fully answered. She had never, she said, seen a fairy, nor had she heard the prophecy about the oak wood from which a maid was to come and deliver France. When asked if she would leave off wearing man's clothes, she said she would not, as it was the will of Heaven for her to wear them.