About noon
She could do nothing but leave it all to the dear Lord , who alone had been her trust for so many years . But it was only a few days later when the Pastor sent her word that she was to go to Bern at once , as the doctor wished her to come . Early the following day Elsbeth started . About noon she reached Bern and soon was standing in front of the door of the sanitarium . She was led to the doctor 's living-room and here received with great friendliness by his wife and with still keener sympathy by the lady from Geneva , who had so lived in the history of poor Toni and his mother that she could hardly think of anything else but how to help these two . She had had only the one child and could so well understand the mother 's trouble . She had even asked the doctor to allow her to be present when he took the boy to his mother , in order to share in the joy , if the poor boy 's delight at seeing her again would affect him as they hoped .