about twelve o'clock
He may have hoped that the memory of all that lay between them would rise up once more when they were face to face . So he came in person to Whitehall to make surrender . He walked deliberately , firmly , and with head erect , through the hostile throng of courtiers -- `` especially the buffoones and ladys of pleasure , '' as Evelyn says . Of his departure thence , his disgrace now consummated , Pepys has left us a vivid picture : `` When he went from the King on Monday morning my Lady Castlemaine was in bed -LRB- though about twelve o'clock -RRB- , and ran out in her smock into her aviary looking into Whitehall Gardens ; and thither her woman brought her her nightgown ; and she stood , blessing herself at the old man 's going away ; and several of the gallants of Whitehall -- of which there were many staying to see the Chancellor 's return -- did talk to her in her birdcage ; among others Blandford , telling her she was the bird of passage . '' Clarendon lingered , melancholy and disillusioned , at his fine house in Piccadilly until , impeached by Parliament , he remembered Strafford 's fate , and set out to tread once more and for the remainder of his days the path of exile . Time avenged him . Two of his granddaughters -- Mary and Anne -- reigned successively as queens in England .