But will you please to remember not to say it again?
We cannot be friends, if you do." "Never again, Mrs.Philbrick ?" he said,--he could almost have said "Mercy,"-- and looked at her with a gaze of whose intentness he was hardly aware.
Mercy felt a strange terror of this man; a few minutes ago a stranger, now already asking at her hands she hardly knew what, and compelling her in spite of herself.

But she replied very quietly, with a slight smile,-- "Never, Mr.White.Now talk of something else, please.

Your mother seemed very much pleased with the ferns I carried her to-day.

Did she love the woods, when she was well ?" "I do not know.

I never heard her say," answered Stephen, absently, still gazing into Mercy's face.
"But you would have known, surely, if she had cared for them," said Mercy, laughing; for she perceived that Stephen had spoken at random.
"Oh, yes, certainly,--certainly.