one in the morning
We drank cups of coffee , but I do not think either of us broke bread . That was a weary day . All the day long new groups were forming and dispersing in the street , telling and talking over the news ; groups of all sorts . Soldiers discoursing to audiences like the one in the morning ; knots of officers ; twos and threes of business men ; debating , inquiring , discussing ; all under the dark rain , all with downcast faces and dispirited bearing . Late in the day Major Fairbairn called . He somewhat reassured us . The carnage was not so great ; the loss not so tremendous , as we had at first been told ; the damage done not so absolutely overwhelming .