8 p.m.
The company assembles and forms in squares on the sticky mound where the traveling kitchen is sending soot into the rain . `` I 'll go and have a drink after parade , '' says Fouillade to himself . And he listens listlessly , full of his plan , to the reading of the report . But carelessly as he listens , he hears the officer read , `` It is absolutely forbidden to leave quarters before 5 p.m. and after 8 p.m. , '' and he hears the captain , without noticing the murmur that runs round the poilus , add this comment on the order : `` This is Divisional Headquarters . However many there are of you , do n't show yourselves . Keep under cover . If the General sees you in the street , he will have you put to fatigues at once .