About six o'clock
That same afternoon Rasputin , who declared that he had a bad headache , sent me to an English chemist 's in the Avenue de l'Opéra for a bottle of tabloids of aspirin . I was rather surprised , for he never took drugs . When I gave him the little bottle he drew out the plug of cotton-wool and extracted a tabloid , which he put upon his dressing-table , afterwards replacing the wool . About six o'clock a lady was announced , and when she was shown up to our sitting-room I found to my surprise that it was Paula Kereicha . Rasputin was out with Azef , so Paula declared that she would wait till their return . `` I am staying at the Hôtel Chatham , and have to go to London to-morrow , '' she told me . `` Krivochein has left the Chatham with his wife , and I am to follow . ''