Back in court with Joan, she is being badgered back and forth with questions with not much success on the judges' side, so the head judge sent away most of the judges until there were only about two dozen left, but these were the toughest of the lot, all out to win against Joan and they did not have any good feelings toward her. He also made the trial private so that no townspeople could see, because the townspeople were starting to make fun of the judges behind their backs since they could not get the upper hand against a peasant girl with no training.
On the last day, the judges set a trap that made her friends think the judges would certainly get her that time. They could see no way that she could make it out of her precarious predicament. Thankfully she did and later she said something which would have saved her, but she did not know it. She had said that if the Pope wanted to try her she would be willing to answer all the questions he would ask. If she had asked to be tried by the Pope everything would have been fine, because the Pope would have no grudges with her and it would have been a fair trial unlike the one she was in now. After a few more questions they sent her back to her cell and everything seemed hopeless.
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