She longs for a kind word from you.

Let me only take her word that you will see her and receive her as a father should receive his child, and I trow that it will give her almost the same joy as the knowledge that by her miraculous call she has saved her country and crowned her King." I scarce know what answer Jacques d'Arc would have made, for he was a proud, unbending man, and his face was sternly set whilst I pleaded with him.

But there were others from Domremy, entirely filled with admiration of the Maid, and with desire to see her again; and their voices prevailed, so that he gave the answer for which I waited.

He would remain at the inn over the morrow of the great function of the coronation, and would receive his daughter there, and have speech with her.
"Tell her that I will take her home with me, if she will come," he spoke; "for she herself did say that her work would be accomplished when the crown was placed upon the King's head.

Let her be true to her word; let her return home, and become a modest maiden again beneath her mother's care, and all shall be well betwixt us.