It is enough to turn her head to see that she has such power over a man like you.

She is a very vain woman, anyway,--vain of her power over people, I think." Stephen could bear no more.

With a half-smothered ejaculation of "O mother!" he left the room.
And thus the old year went out and the new year came in for Mercy Philbrick and Stephen White,--the old year in which they had been nothing, and the new year in which they were to be every thing to each other..