noon
I had thought to go away for a while , I told mother all . How her dear heart ached for me ! Yet she dared not say aught against my decision . She took charge of the note for the doctor , and by noon I was on my journey . Two years passed ere I returned home . Mother wrote me but little news of either Lilly or her doctor after the first letter , telling that my note was a severe shock and great disappointment . Three or four months elapsed before grandma was strong enough for me to leave her .