They decided not to tell Anne. "It would just worry her," said Judy, decidedly, "and I can get some food and things out to you after Anne goes to bed, and you can sleep in the boat-house. We can start in the morning." It was a wild scheme, but before they had finished they felt quite uplifted. In their youth and inexperience, they imagined that Tommy's last dash for liberty was positively heroic, and Judy went in, feeling like one dedicated to a cause. She found Anne rubbing her eyes sleepily. "Why, have you been out, Judy?" she gasped, wide awake. "You are all wet." "It's fine on the porch," said Judy, putting her soaked hair back from her face. "I--I was tired of the heat of the room, and--it was stifling. Let's go to bed, Anne." "Aren't you going to finish your book?" Anne asked, wondering, for Judy was something of a night-owl, and hated early hours. Judy picked up "Sesame and Lilies," which lay open on the couch, and shut it with a bang. "No," she said, shortly, "I am not going to finish it to-night--I don't know whether I shall ever finish it, Anne. I'm not Ruskin's kind of girl, Anne. I can't 'sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,' and I don't think it is any use for me to try." Anne stared at the change that had come over her. "Well, you are my kind of girl," she said at last, and as they went up-stairs together, she slipped her hand into Judy's arm. "I love you, dearly, Judy," she said. But Judy smiled down at her vaguely, for her mind was on Tommy, crouched out there in the rain, and in imagination she was not Judy Jameson, commonplacely going to bed at nine o'clock, but a heroine of history, dedicated to the cause of one Thomas, the Downtrodden. CHAPTER XIX PERKINS CLEANS THE SILVER All the next day, Tommy skulked in the shadow of the pier and in the boat-house, whence during the morning Judy made her way laden with mysterious bundles and various baggage. At noon she departed for Lutie Barton's, leaving Anne, who had a cold, at home. After Judy's departure, Anne wandered listlessly about the house. She tried to read, to sew a little, to pick out some simple tunes on Judy's piano, but thoughts of the little gray house, of the little grandmother, of Becky and Belinda, came between her and her occupations, so that at last, late in the afternoon, she sought the society of Perkins, who was in the dining-room cleaning silver. "I believe I am homesick, Perkins," said Anne, perching herself in a great mahogany chair opposite him. "Well, it ain't to be wondered at," said Perkins, as he picked up a huge cake-dish and began to work on it, energetically. "It ain't to be wondered at. You ain't ever been away from home much, Miss Anne."