eleven o'clock
And before I went to bed I turned off the electric light at the main switch . All these precautions , as I need hardly tell you , were absolutely essential . It might appear difficult to explain the moving of a large chest of drawers by the sound of water-pipes or the fusing of an electric wire ; but the critics of psychical research have essayed far more difficult tasks than that , to their own entire satisfaction . I went up to the bedroom the Slippertons used to occupy , a little before eleven o'clock . I had with me a couple of spare candles , a new notebook , and a fountain pen . I was even at that time , I may add , a highly trained researcher in every way , and was quite capable of taking a full shorthand report of a séance . I tried my pulse and temperature before getting into bed and found them both normal .