about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of November
25, 1893
I sprang upstairs , and before I had reached it heard the telltale clicks . It was not altogether a sheltered position , and as I reached the table I felt the bleak and chilly air penetrating the crevices of the window , a raw ocean breeze that in a few instants crept through my bones . But I was again unconscious of everything ; that marvellous ticking obliterated all thought of earth , its affairs , accidents , dangers , loves , hopes , despairs , all forgotten , swallowed up in the immeasurable revelation I was about to receive . The second message began at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of November 25 , 1893 , two months exactly after the first . Its very opening sentences I failed to get . It lasted late into the morning of the next day . The strain of taking it was somehow singularly intense upon me .