CHAPTER X

THE SUBLIME AND THE RIDICULOUS Judith was not astir early next morning, completing her arrangements to leave the city. True to her promise Pollyanna did not waken her. She tiptoed about softly, as she prepared breakfast, and she and Jimmy conversed in whispers over their oatmeal, and, contrary to her custom, Pollyanna did not go to the door to see him off. After his departure she went on with such of her morning tasks as could be dispatched without undue noise, and listened as she worked for signs of life in her li…