Why does elisa asks again about the fight

because she wanted to know if she was still going

In a sense... She cries like an old woman because she is defeated and she is weakened and powerless to go back and change it. ... Elisa "cries like an old woman" because she is absolutely crushed because she realizes that she has been duped by the tinker and that he was not interested in her chrysanthemums at all.

this is b. how railways dealt with people riding the trains without paying