midday
However , we shall have opportunities of seeing which is right before we have finished with the Romans . March your men back again , Beric . '' Beric sounded his horn , and the line , facing half round , became a column , and marched in regular order back to the village . The morning meal was now taken , and at midday the march began . Boadicea with her daughters , Parta and other women of rank , went first in their chariots ; and the Sarci , who , as lying next to the enemy 's country , were allowed the post of honour , followed in column behind her , while the rest of the tribesmen made their way in a miscellaneous crowd through the forest . They halted among the trees at a distance of four miles from Camalodunum , and then rested , for the attack was not to take place until daybreak on the next morning . Late that evening two or three women of the Trinobantes came out , in accordance with a preconcerted arrangement , to tell them that there was no suspicion at Camalodunum of the impending danger ; and that , although there was great uneasiness among the inhabitants , no measures for defence had been taken , and that even the precaution of sending away the women and children had not been adopted .