eight o'clock
`` A quarter past seven . It will be smart driving , but you can give the mare her own time coming back . '' Then he took the reins , and in another moment they were gone . At eight o'clock that night the sky was brilliantly lighted up , and the sound of many voices was borne on the night wind . The red flare came from the Syke ; the mill was afire . Showers of sparks and sheets of flame were leaping and streaming into the sky . Men and women were hurrying to and fro , and the women 's shrill cries mingled with the men 's shouts .