noon
A running footman came in an hour ago , to say she was at Abingdon , and bid my Lord hold himself in readiness to meet her at the East Gate . The vintners have had orders to send in two tuns of Gascon and Poitou wine ; and Henry the Mason tells me a new cellar and chimney were made last week in the Queen 's chamber at Woodstock . Geoffrey the Sumpter was in town yesterday , buying budgets , coffers , and bottles . So if you girls want to see her , you had better make haste and get your work done , and tidy yourselves up , and be at the East Gate by noon or soon after . '' `` Get their work done ! Do n't you know better than that , Stephen ? A woman 's work never is done .