About eleven o'clock
After supper , I had to go from billet to billet , looking for people whom the officers wished to see . Something very important was in the air . The discussion in the inn 's great room was the first serious council of the war . About eleven o'clock , Lord Grey came out of the room , telling me to follow him . We went out into the street , where presently our men began to fall in , four or five abreast , about a hundred ranks of them . A few cavalry came , too , but not enough , I heard Lord Grey say , not enough to do any good with . In spite of all the efforts of those who loved us -LRB- by efforts I mean the robbing of farm-stables -RRB- we were very short of horses .