SCENE OF THE PLAY The Scene is laid at the end of August, 1914, at Stilemonde, a small town in Belgian Flanders. The first Act begins at 10 A.M. and ends at 12 noon; the second begins at 2 P.M. and ends at 4 P.M.; the third begins at 5:30 P.M. and ends at 7 P.M. on the same day.