However, it was a question of deciding how this attack which had so happily begun would be continued against the English. The chiefs, unconcerned about letting themselves be led by a country girl or sharing with her the glory of success, met in secret to discuss the plan to adopt. Joan presented herself to the council; and as the chancellor of the Duke of Orléans sought to conceal from her the decisions that had been taken: “Say what you have concluded and said,” she cried, indignant at these subterfuges; “I can conceal something greater!” she added: "You have been in your counsel and I have been in mine, and believe that the counsel of God will be fulfilled and will stand firm, and that yours will perish. Get up early tomorrow morning, for I will have much to do, more than I ever had."