According to her chaplain, Joan was allowed little time to prepare. "While Joan was making her devotions and pious lamentations," he recalled, "I was strongly pressed by the English, and indeed, by one of their captains, to leave her in their hands so as to make her die more quickly. They said to me, whose job was to comfort her on the scaffold: 'Priest, are you going to let us get done in time for dinner?' And impatiently, without any form or indication of judgment, they sent her to the fire, saying to the master of the work: 'Do your job.' "