two o'clock
The meat was to change places with the jam , and the mustard with the bacon . The lorries were to take away again everything they had just brought up . So that when lunch-time arrived , everything was in exactly the same state as it had been at dawn . The Admiralty announced the arrival of a transport at two o'clock ; the men were supposed to find their rations ready for them upon landing . Musgrave very pluckily decided that the Labour Company were to have no rest , and were just to be content with nibbling a light lunch while they went on with their work . Barefoot , who had got up at six and was very hungry , approached the colonel in fear and trembling . `` May I leave my sergeant in charge for half an hour , sir ? ''