nine in the evening
`` The hearing is suspended ! '' shouted the colonel in an angry voice . There was nothing else to be done : the court was in an uproar ! It was nine in the evening , and a crowd as large and densely packed as before awaited the verdict . Since Bobinette attempted suicide -- she had been removed to the infirmary with the faint hope that life was not extinct and she might yet be saved -- the hearing had been conducted in camera . But the revelations of the guilty girl had not only upset Dumoulin 's course of procedure , but had also convinced the judges of Fandor 's innocence . He had once more explained why he had concealed his identity beneath the uniform of Corporal Vinson .