half past four
-- name in General Orders -- personal mention to the King , you see ! '' I wished Joan could have seen his conduct , but she was busy thinking what she would do . Then she had me fetch the knight Jean de Metz , and in a minute he was off for La Hire 's quarters with orders for him and the Lord de Villars and Florent d'Illiers to report to her at five o'clock next morning with five hundred picked men well mounted . The histories say half past four , but it is not true , I heard the order given . We were on our way at five to the minute , and encountered the head of the arriving column between six and seven , a couple of leagues from the city . Dunois was pleased , for the army had begun to get restive and show uneasiness now that it was getting so near to the dreaded bastilles . But that all disappeared now , as the word ran down the line , with a huzza that swept along the length of it like a wave , that the Maid was come .