BISHOP CAUCHON--"You claim to be inspired by God. He must have instructed you as to which of the two Popes you should render obedience to." JOAN DARC--"I know nothing about that. It is for the Pope to know whether he obeys God, and for me to obey him who submits to God." BISHOP CAUCHON (to Canon Loyseleur with a significant accent)--"My very dear brother, we shall reserve for another session the grave question that you have broached touching the Church triumphant and the Church militant. Let us now proceed with other matters. (Turning to Joan with an inflection of his voice that announces the gravity of the question.) When you left Vaucouleurs you put on male attire. Was that done at the request of Robert of Baudricourt, or of your own free will? Answer categorically." JOAN DARC--"Of my own free will." A JUDGE--"Did your voices order you to give up the garb of your sex?" JOAN DARC--"Whatever good I have done I did by the advice of my voices. Whenever I understood them well, my saints and the archangel have guided me well." ANOTHER JUDGE--"So, then, you do not think you are committing a sin in wearing the man's clothes that you are covered with?" JOAN DARC (with a sigh of regret)--"Oh, for the happiness of France and the misfortune of England, why am I not free in man's clothes with my horse and my armor! I would still vanquish our enemies." ANOTHER JUDGE--"Would you like to hear mass?" JOAN DARC (thrilling with hope)--"Oh, with all my heart!" THE SAME JUDGE--"You can not hear it in those clothes that are not of your sex." JOAN DARC (reflects a moment; she recalls the obscene language of her jailers and fears to be outraged by them; in man's clothes she feels greater protection than in the habits of her sex; she answers)--"Do you promise me that if I resume my woman's clothes I shall be allowed to attend mass?" THE SAME JUDGE--"Yes, Joan, I promise you that." The Bishop makes a gesture of impatience and withers the judge who had last spoken with a look of condemnation. JOAN DARC--"Let me, then, be provided with a long dress; I shall put it on to go to chapel. But when I return to my prison I shall resume my man's clothes." The judge consults the Bishop with his eye to ascertain whether the request of the accused shall be granted; the prelate answers with a negative sign of his head, and turns to Joan. BISHOP CAUCHON--"So, then, you persist in keeping your masculine dress?" JOAN DARC--"I am guarded by men; such dress is safer." THE INQUISITOR OF THE FAITH--"Do you now wear and have you worn masculine garb voluntarily, absolutely of your own free will?" JOAN DARC--"Yes; and I shall continue to do so." Again silence ensues. The ecclesiastical judges feel triumphant over the answer made so categorically by the accused, a grave answer seeing that Bishop Cauchon says to the registrars: BISHOP CAUCHON--"Have you entered the words of the said Joan?" A REGISTRAR--"Yes, monseigneur."