Meherjee, Nilu and Gustadji arrived the following day. Many people came to Locarno for Baba's darshan, including Anita and Roger Vieillard, who stayed for three days. Max Adolf Haefliger, 40, and his wife, Gisela Sophia, 42, stayed at Hedi's, to help with the arrangements. Max had heard of Baba in 1941 and had corresponded with some of the mandali, but this was his first meeting. Baba played with their three daughters: Rona, twelve; Monika, eleven; and Verena, eight, all of whom were greatly drawn to him.
One day Max drove Baba and Don to the doctor. ("Baba was like a commander," he remembers.) The doctor advised massaging Baba's arms and legs and a little exercise. Therefore, a local masseur was called to massage Baba daily and Baba was also made to walk with crutches. Although he had much pain in his leg, he began taking a few steps with Don's help.
Mehera also visited a plastic surgeon in Locarno, Switzerland. As Charmian related:
Before leaving Locarno, Mehera was taken again for plastic surgery and the surgeon took off the scab on the wound and immediately announced that the skin was perfectly all right and would grow back and that she wouldn't need to have any further surgery. The day before we left Locarno Baba called me in and made me look at it. They took off the bandage and kept it covered with ointments for several days and the wound had completely healed except for some slight swelling over one eye, with hardly a scar. So she seemed to be all right then.
Baba paid constant attention to Mehera, Charmian stated:
Incidentally, as busy as he was with all of these people he yet found time to see that we all were busy and had things to do. Never a day passed, away from him, that he did not call Mehera, or Mehera call him, to see that each was well and happy. I don't think a day passed when they were away from each other in the States or Europe when I was present that I did not put in a call for Baba to Mehera or vice-versa with an inquiry about how things were going and the well-being of the other person.
Perhaps in resumption of his work in looking for the ideal boy, Baba again expressed his wish to have a young boy near him who could do night duty. Irene brought her nephew, a sweet-tempered boy named Konrad Benedict Koethner, fourteen and a half. Baba liked him, kept him and assigned him two hours of duty every night, along with Rano and Nilu.