five in the afternoon
Dinah sat behind Chamis , the others took separate camels , and the party started . If the station-master had stared at them longer he might perhaps have wondered that those Englishmen , of whom Idris spoke , rode directly to the ruins on the south , while this party at once directed its movements towards Talei , in a different direction . But the station-master before that time had returned home as no other train arrived that day at Gharak . The hour was five in the afternoon . The weather was splendid . The sun had already passed on that side of the Nile and declined over the desert , sinking into the golden and purple twilight glowing on the western side of the sky . The atmosphere was so permeated with the roseate luster that the eyes blinked from its superfluity .