eight o'clock before
She wondered about the shots . A crowd of drunken fools were still hanging around the Galt House bar perhaps . She went back to bed and slept again . It was eight o'clock before the crash of a volley from the Arsenal enclosure roused her . She leaped to her feet , rushed to the window and stood trembling as volley followed volley in a long rattle of rifle and shotgun and pistol . A neighbor hurried past with a gun in his hand . She asked him what the fighting meant .