About eleven o'clock
Then I fell to scheming again . The insurmountable difficulty of the place , especially now it was alarmed , was to get any plunder out of it . I went down into the warehouse to see if there was any chance of packing and addressing a parcel , but I could not understand the system of checking . About eleven o'clock , the snow having thawed as it fell , and the day being finer and a little warmer than the previous one , I decided that the Emporium was hopeless , and went out again , exasperated at my want of success , with only the vaguest plans of action in my mind . '' `` But you begin now to realise , '' said the Invisible Man , `` the full disadvantage of my condition . I had no shelter -- no covering -- to get clothing was to forego all my advantage , to make myself a strange and terrible thing . I was fasting ; for to eat , to fill myself with unassimilated matter , would be to become grotesquely visible again . ''