She had such a longing to help Toni, that she
wanted to act immediately that very hour.
"Would you like to learn at once, go to a teacher right away?" she asked
him.
Toni gladly replied that he would.
But now came a new thought. She turned to the doctor. "Perhaps he ought to
recover his health first?"
The doctor replied that he had been already thinking about that. The
mother had told him that she knew a very good master up in Frutigen. "Now
I think," he went on to say, "that carving is not a strenuous work, and
one of the most important things for Toni is to have for some time good,
nourishing food. In Frutigen there is a very good inn, if he only could--"
"I will undertake that, Doctor, I will undertake that," interrupted the
lady. "I will go with him. We will start to-morrow. In Frutigen I will
provide for Toni's board and lodging and for everything he needs." In her
great delight the lady shook hands with both the mother and the boy
repeatedly, and went out to instruct her maid about preparations for the
journey.
When the mother with her boy had been taken to their room, the doctor said
with great delight to his wife:
"We have two recoveries. Our lady is also cured.
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