There was a stir among the learned men at this answer. The professor who had asked the question smiled as though well pleased, while the King's advocate murmured: "No clerk of the court could have answered better." After the little flurry had subsided, one Seguin, a Carmelite friar of learning and repute, next took his turn. He was a native of Limoges, and spoke the dialect of his district. "In what language, Pucelle, do these voices speak to you?" Now this query seemed frivolous to Jeanne. She knew no language but French, so what other could the Voices use? "In a better than yours," she flashed, and there followed a general laugh, for the patois of Limoges was a common subject of ridicule. "Do you believe in God?" continued the friar, nothing daunted by the mirth. "More firmly than you do," she replied seriously. "Then you must know, Pucelle, that God does not wish us to trust you without some sign that you can do what you say. Gideon, for a sign, laid a fleece of wool upon the floor, and in the morning there was dew upon it so that he could wring a bowl of water from it, while all about the floor was dry; and the second night the fleece was dry and the floor was wet. So Gideon showed to the children of Israel, and it was his sign that he was from the Lord. We can not advise the King to risk his soldiers just on the strength of your simple word. What is your sign, Pucelle?" "In God's name," cried Jeanne, now thoroughly worn out, "I did not come to show signs in Poictiers; but lead me to Orléans with few or many men-at-arms, and I will show you the sign for which I am sent. Attend, and I will tell you also what is to happen in France: I will summon the English, and if they do not heed I will drive them from their siege. I will lead the Dauphin to his crowning and anointing at Reims; Paris will come into its allegiance to the rightful king, and the Duc d'Orléans will return from his captivity; so my Voices have told me." And of those who heard the words all lived to see the fulfillment of Jeanne's prophecies save only the maiden herself. During her life but the first two came to pass. "Why do you call the King the Dauphin, even as the foreigners do who deny him the right to the throne?" asked another. "Because he is not the King until he is anointed and crowned with the sacred oil," she answered.