He was too confused to hear.

He was thrust against the wall, and a number of people blundered past him.

It seemed to him that his guards were struggling with one another.
Suddenly the cable-hung star-holder appeared again, and the whole scene was white and dazzling.

The band of red-coats seemed broader and nearer; its apex was half-way down the ways towards the central aisle.

And raising his eyes Graham saw that a number of these men had also appeared now in the darkened lower galleries of the opposite building, and were firing over the heads of their fellows below at the boiling confusion of people on the lower ways.