midday on Sunday
He groped and stumbled after them . They stole and slipped away . In the train going down to Tidborough the man who had accosted him permitted himself to be more communicative . A policeman , observing lights burning in the house at midday on Sunday , had knocked , and getting no answer had gone in . He had found the young woman dead on her bed , the baby dead beside her . A tumbler was on a small table and a bottle of oxalic acid , `` salts of lemon , as they call it , '' said the man . Sabre stared out of the window .