eight o’clock
But Paul and Arthur and Annie hated it . To Paul it became almost a demoniacal noise . The winter of their first year in the new house their father was very bad . The children played in the street , on the brim of the wide , dark valley , until eight o'clock . Then they went to bed . Their mother sat sewing below . Having such a great space in front of the house gave the children a feeling of night , of vastness , and of terror .