![]() She immediately informs Sir Robert that he is ordered to give her a horse, armor, and some soldiers, and that he must send her to the Dauphin. When Joan enters, she is seen to be a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old able-bodied country girl. In a blustering manner, he goes to the window and orders her to come up. ![]() as long as The Maid is at the door." Sir Robert is thunderstruck that The Maid from Lorraine is still outside because he dismissed her two days ago, but we hear that she will not leave ("she is so positive") until Sir Robert grants her an interview. ![]() His steward maintains that it is an "act of God" and that the hens will not lay because "there is a spell on us: we are bewitched. in the castle of Captain Robert de Baudricourt, a "handsome and physically energetic" man with "no will of his own." Sir Robert is blustering about because there are no eggs. ![]() The scene takes place in the spring of the year 1429 A.D. ![]()
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