jude had initially taken to hanging around that dry flat farm to be with janet but janet would have nothing to do with him because she had a brain in her head and knew jude was dreamy and unsure of himself , and so jude took to hanging around with tess , who was older and worldlier anyway and who knew how to pull at a bottle and had already had misadventures of her own and could be a sympathetic ear to his having been kicked out of college for being a rebel ( or so he told her ) and then readmitted on probation .