six o'clock
Then she became aware that a tall young man in khaki was also standing before the shop-window , not looking at the titles of the books , but eyeing her askance . His face was fresh and open , with a sort of kindly eagerness in his blue eyes . Mechanically she drooped her wet lashes , raised them obliquely , drooped them again , and uttered a little sob ... . This young man , Captain in a certain regiment , and discharged from hospital at six o'clock that evening , had entered Queen 's Hall at half-past seven . Still rather brittle and sore from his wound , he had treated himself to a seat in the Grand Circle , and there had sat , very still and dreamy , the whole concert through . It had been like eating after a long fast -- something of the sensation Polar explorers must experience when they return to their first full meal . For he was of the New Army , and before the war had actually believed in music , art , and all that sort of thing .