Well, I could hardly eat my supper for thinking of it, and I went to bed
so quickly and quietly that Mrs. Turner called me "pigeon" and patted my
head, because the little girls didn't want to go and were a
little noisy.

After I got into bed and was just falling asleep, I did just for a
minute think I should have asked Mrs. Turner if I could go, but
honestly I never thought of that till then, because Aunty May wasn't
there. I would have thought of telling her. Anyway Henry had told me not
to tell, and I didn't know whether he meant just the children or not.

Well, I stayed awake a long time, and got up softly and dressed again,
and then I stayed asleep it seemed to me just a teeny while, when a bit
of grass and gravel hit me on the nose.

I woke up and more came flying through my open window, so I got up
softly and kneeled on my bed, and there was Henry down on the ground,
looking up at me.

When he saw me he put his finger to his lips, and sent a big piece of
clothes-rope flying through the window on to the bed, all without
a word.

Then he shaped with his mouth to use that and not the stairs, for the
stairs were creaky.

So I put the noose at the end over my bed-post and held on tight, and
slid down, without a bit of noise, to the ground, where Henry caught me.