four o'clock
Her face was paler than usual ; the normal lassitude of her features was full of gentleness ; her eyelids were rosy as roses . Then she smiled weakly and said , `` There are some young men of eighteen who 've enlisted , but only for the duration of the war . They 've done right ; that 'll be useful to them all ways later in life . '' * * * * * * On Monday we hung about the house till four o'clock , when I left it to go to the Town Hall , and then to the station . At the Town Hall a group of men , like myself , were stamping about . They were loaded with parcels in string ; new boots hung from their shoulders . I went up to mix with my new companions .