Two hours
before noon
With that to carry she could lift up her head . No woman in the world need grudge the usurper of place while she may go on , carrying her title below the heart . More of this presently . Two hours before noon , in that clear October weather , over the brown hills came a company of knights on white destriers , with their pennons flying and white cloaks over their mail , the outriders of Navarre . They were met in the meadow of the Charterhouse and escorted to their quarters , which were on the right of the King 's pavilion . That same pavilion was of purple silk , worked over with gold leopards the size of life . It had two standards beside it , the dragon of the English , the leopards of Anjou .