About ten o'clock
We ate our supper in silence . A feeling of awe was upon all of us . Every one was told to pack up his goods and valuables and be ready for instant flight when the word was given ; and to each one were assigned the articles he or she was to carry . About ten o'clock Max returned and told us all to come up to the roof . The house stood , as I have already said , upon a corner ; it was in the older part of the city , and not far from where the first great battle would be fought . Max whispered to me that the blow would be struck at six o'clock in Europe and at twelve o'clock at night in America . The fighting therefore had already begun in the Old World .