noon
` It is no more to me , ' the Queen said , ` to lose the other things to you than to lose to you the wine that you shall drink or a pile of cakes . ' Nevertheless she left Katharine upon her knees till she had taken her cup , for it pleased her that her servitors should see her treated with due worship . It was noon of that day when Katharine Howard set out again from Richmond to ride back to Hampton Court ; and at noon of that day Throckmorton 's barge shot dangerously beneath London Bridge , hastening to Hampton Court . At noon Thomas Culpepper passed over London Bridge , because a great crowd pressed across it from the south going to see a burning at Smithfield ; at noon , too , or five minutes later , the young Poins galloped furiously past the end of the bridge and did not cross over , but sped through Southwark towards Hampton Court . And at noon or thereabouts the King , dressed in green as a husbandman , sat on a log to await a gun-fire , in the forest that was near to Richmond river path opposite Isleworth . He had given to Katharine a paper that she was to deliver to the master gunner of Richmond Palace in case the Queen Anne did satisfy her that the marriage was no marriage . So that , when among the green glades where the great trees let down their branches near the sward and shewed little tips of tender green leaves , he heard three thuds come echoing , he sprang to his feet , and , smiting his great , green-clothed thigh , he cried out : ` Ha !