But happily her words proved true.
[Footnote 1061: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

124 (evidence of the woman P.
Milet).

_Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

292.] The townsfolk had been too quick to take alarm.

Notwithstanding their fear of Talbot and the English of the Saint-Laurent camp, the nobles crossed the Loire in the early morning, and at Le Portereau rejoined their horses and pages who had passed the night there with the archers and train-bands.