three o'clock
`` Is the regiment ordered away ? '' `` Not yet , lads ; but it may be . I have just seen the colonel . He dined with the duke at three o'clock . There were a lot of officers there , and the Prince of Orange , who had just come in from the outposts for the ball , told him that the Prussians at Thuin were attacked this morning , and that a heavy cannonade was going on when he left . Orders were issued half an hour ago for the whole of the troops to be in readiness to march at a moment 's notice . There 's no saying yet which way the French may come , and this attack upon the Prussians may be only a feint ; so not a soldier can be moved till more is known .