eleven o'clock
The other interesting invalid , Lieutenant Willett , was correspondingly better , and was to sit up awhile later in the day . Inspection was held under arms and in fighting kit instead of full dress -- the two companies looking like a pair of scanty platoons , so heavy was the drain for guard duty . From earliest dawn lookouts had been stationed on top of the adjutant 's office at the south , and the hospital at the north edge of the parade , Bucketts having built for them a little wooden platform , with bench , shelf and sunshade , and there , with signal-service glasses , they scoured the barren wilds in every direction for sign of coming friend or foe . It was eleven o'clock when Bentley came forth with Mrs. Stannard from his morning visit to Willett . `` Oh , he 's doing as well as an overfed , under-trained animal has any right to , '' said he , in response to the inquiry in her soft blue eyes . `` I still think some men have too much luck in this world of ours . Here 's Willett , who does n't begin to deserve it , getting everything that is good , and Harris , who deserves all the good that the army affords , gets all the hard knocks and setbacks .