About
three o'clock in the morning
`` About her squareness ? Well , there was the time Gentle Willie Purdy got drunk . We call him Gentle Willie because he is n't , you know . About three o'clock in the morning , he took the notion it was dinner time and climbed the side gate to the Hotel Marseillaise and pounded at the door . He faded out about then , he says . When he woke up , he was laid out on a couch , with a towel on his head , and Madame was bringing him black coffee . He tried to thank her after he felt better ; and what do you think she said ?