about twelve o'clock
As to keeping any passage for the traffic , that would have been considered quite unnecessary . There was not much to keep it for ; and what there was could go round by back streets , just as well as not . Few people set any value on time in the Middle Ages . Queen Alianora was expected to arrive about twelve o'clock . She was not the Queen Eleanor of whom we read at the beginning of the story -LRB- for Alianora is only one of the old ways of spelling Eleanor -RRB- , but her daughter-in-law , the Lady Alianora who had been a friend to the dumb Princess . She was a Spanish lady , and was one of the best and loveliest Queens who ever reigned in England . Goodness and beauty are not always found in company -- perhaps I might say , not often ; but they went together with her .