[Footnote 52: With all that happened before Jeanne came to Rouen I have no concern here, and I must take it for granted that you know at least the outlines. But to confirm the sentence to which this note refers, I may add that they still point out to you at Chinon the well where she alighted off her horse, and the house of the "bonne femme" who sheltered her. Of the Tour du Coudray in the Castle of Chinon, as of the great hall on the first floor where she met the King, little save ruined stones remain. And it is not often that even so much as that is left of other places in which she is known to have stayed, such as the chamber in the Castle of Crotoy, the tower at Beaurevoir, the gate-tower of Compiegne, or any of the cells in which she was confined within the Castle of Rouen itself.] In answer to the first threatening question the manuscript gives her reply as follows:-- "Vraiement, se vous me deviez faire detraire les membres et faire partir l'ame hors du corps, si ne vous diray-je autre chose; et se aucune chose vous en disoye-je, apres si diroye-je tousjours que vous le me auries fait dire par force. "_Item_, dit que, a la Sainte-Croix, oult le confort de Saint Gabriel: 'Et croiez que ce fust sainct Gabriel;' et l'a sceu par les voix que c'estoit Saint Gabriel. "_Item_, dit qu'elle (a) demande conseil a ses voix s'elle se submectroit a l'Eglise, pour ce que les gens d'eglise la pressoient fort de se submectre a l'Eglise, et ils lui ont dit que s'elle veult que nostre Seigneur luy aide, qu'elle s'actende a luy de tous ses fais. "_Item_, dit qu'elle scait bien que nostre Seigneur a este toujours maistre de ses fais, et que l'ennemy n'avait oncques eu puissance sur ses faits. "_Item_, dit qu'elle a demande a ses voix s'elle sera arse, et que les dictes voix luy ont repondu que elle se actende a nostre sire, et il luy aidera. "_Item_, du signe de la couronne qu'elle dit avoir este baille a l'arcevesque de Reims, interoguee s'elle s'en veult rapporter a luy, respond; 'Faictes le y venir, et que je l'oe parler, et puis je vous respondray; ne il ne oseroit dire le contraire de ce que je vous en ay dit.'" In 1455 the "Proces de rehabilitation" recorded the testimony of Mauger Separmentier, the executioner, who saw her during this scene in the donjon, whither he had been summoned, with his assistant, to administer the torture, if necessary. "She showed great prudence in her replies," he affirmed, "so that those who heard were astonished; and this deponent retired with his assistant without touching her" (see Quicherat, "Proces," vols. i., ii., iii.). It is evident that if she had given them the least excuse, by any mistake in her replies, her judges would not have allowed the executioner to depart idle.