noon
`` Never have I been in Ferrybridge . I know not what supplies I may find . '' `` Take care thou find not the king 's men , '' said Hugo . `` At noon Fleetfoot and I journey on . '' With that he directed his horse into the water , Fleetfoot followed , and Humphrey was left on the bank . `` Ay , '' he said to himself , rather ruefully , `` thou canst play the master as haughtily as our young lord Josceline himself when it pleaseth thee . But for all that , last night I did go up a ladder and climb a tree .