If I had any human being to need me, I could bear being separated from you." "Where will you go, Mercy ?" asked Stephen, in a tone of dull, hopeless misery.
"I do not know.

I have not thought yet.

Back to my old home for a visit, I think, and then to some city to study and work.

That is the best life for me." "O Mercy, Mercy, I am going to lose you,--lose you utterly!" exclaimed Stephen.
Mercy looked at him with a pained and perplexed expression.

"Stephen," she said earnestly, "I can't understand you.