six o'clock in the evening
But had not Ottensen spoken as though these were quite usual practices ? It looked as though this purely external unwarlike training of the army were being erected into a principle . The first day at the practice-camp was entirely taken up by settling into quarters . The tables were laid at six o'clock in the evening . Most of the officers were perfectly exhausted with standing about and running hither and thither ; and directly the meal was over they retired to their rooms to get half an hour 's nap before their evening duty . Reimers left the camp by the back gate and went slowly along the edge of the forest towards the butts . The sun was setting , and the rim of the red disk seemed to be just resting on the dark line of the tree-tops .