148.] [Footnote 714: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

96.] She called the Duke of Alencon her fair Duke,[715] and loved him for the sake of the Duke of Orleans, whose daughter he had married.

She loved him also because he believed in her when all others doubted or denied, and because the English had done him wrong.

She loved him too because she saw he had a good will to fight.

It was told how when he was a captive in the hands of the English at Verneuil, and they proposed to give him back his liberty and his goods if he would join their party, he had rejected their offer.[716] He was young like her; she thought that he like her must be sincere and noble.