one o'clock
I was about to leave the king when he stopped me , saying `` Please go to my Lady Castlemain 's lodging over Holbein 's Gate and ask her to go with us down to London . And Clyde , have my barge at the Bowling Green stairs at one o'clock so that we may take our leisure going down the river and still reach the law courts on time . Our punctuality will flatter the city folk . '' At one o'clock , according to instructions , I went to the royal barge waiting at Bowling Green stairs , where presently came the king , the duchess with one of her ladies , Frances , my Lord Clarendon , and my Lady Castlemain , the last named bearing in her arms a young baby . In a barge which was to follow us were several gentlemen of the court and a halfscore of the king 's guardsmen . Evidently the occasion was to be in the nature of a frolic ; poor Frances to furnish the entertainment . On thinking it all over , I was convinced that the investigation , whatever it should turn out to be , had been instigated by the king .