an hour
before noon
asked Anne . `` To visit my father ; it is my first task on rising , '' returned Sibyll , in a whisper . `` You must let me visit him , too , at a later hour . Find me here an hour before noon , Sibyll . '' The early morning was passed by Anne in the queen 's company . The refection , the embroidery frame , the closheys , filled up the hours . The Duchess of Clarence had left the palace with her lord to visit the king 's mother at Baynard 's Castle ; and Anne 's timid spirits were saddened by the strangeness of the faces round her , and Elizabeth 's habitual silence .