2:30 in the morning
`` Penniless because you gave your fortune to the cause of freedom , '' she supplemented , fumbling in her chatelaine bag for her purse . `` Here it is . The contents are yours until the end of our romance . '' The conductor took fare from him to Lafayette and informed the mud-covered gentleman that he could get a train from that city to Chicago at 2:30 in the morning . `` We 're all right now , '' said Crosby after the conductor had passed on . `` You are tired , little woman . Lie back and go to sleep .