midnight
`` Five dollars . '' `` No . I 'll get along here . '' Not until they reached Albany , after midnight , had he a seat to himself . Meantime , finding his companion overcome by drowsiness and her poor old head bobbing helplessly , he rolled his new cloak cape into a sort of pillow , wedged it between her and the window seat , and bade her use it . As they came in view of the brightly-lighted station she awoke with a start and made a spring for her belongings . She had slept soundly ever since they left Poughkeepsie , and was again profuse in gratitude .