five in the afternoon
Marlborough 's promptitude had saved the situation . `` You fought like a very fiend , Blackett , '' remarked the major , laughingly , a little later on , when for the moment operations had ceased , to which Matthew replied simply , `` Did I , sir ? I do n't remember anything about it , '' whereat the major laughed again . It was five in the afternoon , and there was a lull on the field . Up to the present neither side could be said to have gained any real advantage over the other . All the allied cavalry had crossed the stream , and the men wondered what would come next . They were not left long in doubt .