midday
`` No . '' '' _ That 's _ a good thing , for the bad fellow has n't got long to live . '' He made an expressive movement with his hand across his throat . `` The man he attacked is dead -- died at midday , and the murderer is now sitting in chains . '' Silla did not know how it was that the door was shut behind her again , and did not feel that it was snowing thickly and silently , while the light from the lamps shone through a veil of snow -- did not know how she had reached the bridge again . That was where she ought to be . Nikolai was sitting down there with handcuffs on , and stretching up his hands , and crying -- crying to her !