nine o'clock in the evening
The crowd was too great for him to regain the gallery , and even there could only witness , without power to avert , their murder . Were they still at the Bicetre he might do something . Perhaps the assassins had not yet arrived there . It was now nine o'clock in the evening . The streets were almost deserted . The respectable inhabitants all remained within their houses , trembling at the horrors , of which reports had circulated during the afternoon . At first there had been hopes that the Assembly would take steps to put a stop to the massacre , but the Assembly did nothing .