It is now evening and there is a ruckus ("animated discussion") occurring in Denisov's quarters. A staff captain named Kirsten - who has been twice demoted for affairs of honour and then promoted again, so there is hope for Denisov yet - is demanding that Nikolai Rostov must apologise to the commander. I am unclear as to what for.
Oh, apparently he was wrong to accuse an officer of stealing in front of officers. I think, after confronting Telyanin, he repeated the accusation to the colonel, Bogdanich, who then called him a liar, which is what Rostov is annoyed about. I would be too. Telling the truth about Telyanin's behaviour - in front of officers, no less - means that they have to either do something about it and look bad.
It's like how we call the Spanish Flu the Spanish Flu, not because Spain was hit worse, or because it originated the virus, but because they were the first country to openly talk about the problem. It's also like all those college campuses who can't talk about their sexual assault problem because no one else is. You have to talk about problems and acknowledge them to have a hope in hell of fixing them. Why is it better to live with a problem no one knows about than to just solve it? I do not like this.
Rostov doesn't like being called a liar but also doesn't feel as strongly as me, so he decides to let things be smoothed over. Get it together, Little Nicky (that is his name now).
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