noon
To-morrow ! oh , to-morrow ! '' And she fell asleep more peacefully than had been her wont for many nights . On the morrow it chanced that John and Wilhelm went separate ways to work and did not meet until noon . In the afternoon Wilhelm was sent on an errand to a farm some five miles away , and thus the day passed without John 's having found any opportunity for the promised talk . Carlen perceived with keen disappointment this frustration of his purpose , but comforted herself , thinking , with the swift forerunning trust of youth : `` To-morrow he will surely get a chance . To-morrow he will have something to tell me .