noon
Could he do anything ? Nothing , nothing . No , Elizabeth must not stay with her , please ; she would rather be alone . As he turned away she called to him , `` Elizabeth and I will take the noon train , David . '' And he said , `` Yes , I will have a carriage here . '' The door closed ; on one side of it was the mother , exhausted almost to unconsciousness , yet elate , remembering no more the anguish for joy of what had been born out of it . On the other side these two , still ignorant -- as the new-born always are -- of the future to which that travail had pledged them .