186 SAINT JOAN

THE GENTLEMAN [putting up Ms paper, and retiring beside
the Executioner] In Basilica Yaticana, the sixteenth day of
May3 nineteen hundred and twenty.

DUNOIS [raising Joan] Half an hour to burn you, dear
Saint, and four centuries to find out the truth about you !

DE STOGUMBER. Sir : I was chaplain to the Cardinal of
Winchester once. They always would call him the Cardinal
of England. It would be a great comfort to me and to my
master to see a fair statue to The Maid, in Winchester
Cathedral Will they put one there, do you think ?

THE GENTLEMAN. As the building is temporarily in the
hands of the Anglican heresy, I cannot answer for that.

A vision of the statue in Winchester Cathedral is seen
through the window,

DE STOGUMBER. Oh look ! look ! that is Winchester.

JOAN, Is that meant to be me ? I was stiffer on my feet.

The vision fades.

THE GENTLEMAN* I have been requested by the temporal
authorities of France to mention that the multiplication of
public statues to The Maid threatens to become an obstruc-
tion to traffic. I do so as a matter of courtesy to the said
authorities* but must point out on behalf of the Church
that The Maid's horse is no greater obstruction to traffic
than any other horse.

JOAN. Eh 1 I am glad they have not forgotten my horse,

^4 vision of the statue before Rheim Cathedral appears.

JOAN. Is that funny little thing me too ?

CHARLES. That is Rheims Cathedral where you had me
crowned. It must be you.

IOAN. Who has broken my sword,? My sword was
never broken. It is the sword of France*

DUNOIS. Never mind. Swords can be mended* Your
soul is unbroken; and you are the soul of France.

The vision fades. Tfw Archbishop and the Inquisitor are
mw $em on the right and kft of Cauchon.

, ,My sword shall conquer yet: the sword that never