noon
`` Oh , let us go ! let us go at once , dear sir , '' entreated Cicely . `` I burn to carry my mother this hope . '' It was not yet noon , so early had been the audience , and dark and short as were the days , it was quite possible to make some progress on the journey before night . Cicely had kept the necessaries for her journey ready , and so had Mr. Talbot , even to the purchase of horses , which were in the Shrewsbury House stables . The rest of the mails could be fetched by the Mastiff 's crew , and brought to Hull under charge of Goatley . Madame de Salmonnet was a good deal scandalised at Son Altesse Royale going off with only a male escort , and to Cicely 's surprise , wept over her , and prayed aloud that she might have good success , and bring safety and deliverance to the good and persecuted Queen for whom she had attempted so much .