When with the King she urged him gently.
Many times she said to him: "I shall live a year, barely longer.
During that year let as much as possible be done."[1143] [Footnote 1143: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

99.] Then she enumerated the four charges which she must accomplish during that time.

After having delivered Orleans she must drive the _Godons_ out of France, lead the King to be crowned and anointed at Reims and rescue the Duke of Orleans from the hands of the English.[1144] One day she grew impatient and went to the King when he was in one of those closets of carved wainscot constructed in the great castle halls for intimate or family gatherings.

She knocked at the door and entered almost immediately.

There she found the King conversing with Maitre Gerard Machet, his confessor, my Lord the Bastard, the Sire de Treves and a favourite noble of his household, by name Messire Christophe d'Harcourt.