about six o’clock
`` Well , what did you make out ? Did he drop any hint of his own views ? '' `` Faith , I ca n't say he did . He asked me some questions about the troops just landed ; he spoke a little of the commissary department , damned the blankets , said that green forage was bad food for the artillery horses , sent me an English paper to read about the O. P. riots , and said the harriers would throw off about six o'clock , and that he hoped to see me at dinner . '' I could not restrain a laugh at Power 's catalogue of his lordship 's topics . `` So , '' said I , `` he at least does not take any gloomy views of our present situation . '' `` Who can tell what he thinks ?