midday
`` Here we have to bide till that mends , '' said Bertric . `` We must make the best of it , for a day or two . Maybe it matters little , for Gerda needs rest . And Dalfin will sleep till midday if we let him . He is worn out . '' `` He was full of all that would happen when we came as honoured guests to his father 's place , as we talked last evening , '' I said . `` That all sounds well enough for a time .