eight o'clock
For in history there is no great general , however gifted , who arrived at success otherwise than through able teaching and hard study and some experience . It is a riddle which will never be guessed . I think these vast powers and capacities were born in her , and that she applied them by an intuition which could not err . At eight o'clock all movement ceased , and with it all sounds , all noise . A mute expectancy reigned . The stillness was something awful -- because it meant so much . There was no air stirring .