noon
* * * * * By noon the Paddock was filling , and the Carriage Enclosure becoming packed . People began to blacken the railway embankment , to gather in knots all round the course at likely places , to line the Canal . In the crowd you could hear the dialects of every county in England mingling with accents of the young countries beyond the seas . At noon the Duke and his party crossed the Paddock . `` You wo n't join us , Mat ? '' he called . `` I 've got a saloon on the Embankment . ''