About seven in the evening
`` Oh , she 's a woman of great nerve , Mr Armstrong . Mary is a woman of very great nerve . I can assure you we shall never forget that Thursday night . About seven in the evening it got darkish , but the horrid yells of the wild creatures had never ceased for one half-hour ; and , a little after seven , twenty different bonfires illuminated the parish . There were bonfires on every side of us : huge masses of blazing turf were to be seen scattered through the whole country . '' `` Did they burn any thing except the turf , Mr O'Joscelyn ? '' `` Wait till I tell you , Mr Armstrong .