By referring to the incidents in the story, state how dusk is said to be an hour of defeated.

The story "Dusk" by Saki illustrates the defeated. It is
at this time where

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many unconsidered figures moving silently through
the half-light, or dotted unobtrusively on bench and chair, scarcely to be distinguished
from the shadowed gloom in which they
sat.

The story shows the
figures around Gortsby as alienated and indistinguishable from the impending darkness
which surrounds them.

The narrator presents Gortsby's
feelings about dusk immaculately:

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Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid
their fallen fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible from the scrutiny of the
curious, came forth in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed
shoulders and unhappy eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate,
unrecognised.

Dusk brings out
the defeated. Dusk brings out those who have no place in the light. Dusk is a place for
those who have been shunned, been forgotten, been defeated. It was only in the dusk that
defeated people could find "pleasure sadly in a pleasure-ground that had emptied of its
rightful occupants." In essence, dusk is the only thing which embraces the
defeated.

The most telling example of defeat happens in the
following:

On
the bench by his side sat an elderly gentleman with a drooping air of defiance that was
probably the remaining vestige of self-respect in an individual who had ceased to defy
successfully anybody or
anything.

The depiction of
the man shows the ultimate power of the dusk.