2:30 a.m.
Fares , two hundred pounds , fust class . No seconds or parleys allowed for love or money . Starts from the Fuddlecrum Sta -- '' `` Fulcrum , '' said Mr Tippet , correcting . `` Fulcrum Station , '' resumed Willie , `` at 2:30 a.m. of the mornin ' precisely . Stops at the Quarter , Half-way , an ' Three-quarter Stations , allowin ' twenty minutes , more or less , for grub -- weather permittin ' . '' `` Your observations are quaint , '' said Mr Tippet , with a smile ; `` but there is a great deal of truth in them . No doubt , the connection of such ideas , especially as put by you , sounds a little ludicrous ; but when we come to analyse them , we see their possibility , for , _ if _ a lever of the size indicated by the ancient philosopher were erected -LRB- and theoretically , the thing _ is _ possible -RRB- , then the subordinate arrangements as to a line of railway and stations , etcetera , would be mere matters of detail .