seven o'clock
He bent his head as sign for assent . `` It was in Boston , '' she said , `` last June -- on the evening after the fight at Bunker Hill . At midnight , rather . Before seven o'clock the hospitals were full , and they brought half a dozen poor fellows to my lodgings in Garden Court Street . Towards midnight one of them , that had lain all the afternoon under the broiling sun by the _ Mystic _ and had taken a sunstroke on top of his wound , began raving . My maid and I were alone in the house , and we agreed that he was dangerous . I told her that there was nothing to fear ; that for an hour past some one had been patrolling the side-walk before the house ; and I bade her go downstairs and desire him to fetch a surgeon .