two o'clock in the afternoon
`` I love dogs , '' he said , simply . `` There 'll never be a fight at my post , Mac -- unless it 's between men . And I 'm not going to see this fight , because I 'm afraid I 'd kill some one if I did . '' It was two o'clock in the afternoon . The caribou were roasting brown . In two more hours the feast would begin . The hour of the fight was at hand .