Mina glanced at him; he was smiling; he had become good-tempered.
"Oh, I don't expect you to do it for that reason, but if you do it——"
"Do what?" he asked, laughing outright.
"I don't know. But if you do, I shall be there to see—looking so hard at you, Mr Tristram." She paused, and then added, "I should like Cecily Gainsborough to come into it too."
"Confound Cecily Gainsborough! Good-by," said Harry.
He left with her two main impressions; the first was that he had not the least love for the girl whom he meant to marry; the second that he hardly cared to deny to her that he hated Cecily Gainsborough because she was the owner of Blent.
"All the same," she thought, "I suppose he'll marry Janie, and I'm certain he'll keep Blent." Yet he seemed to take no pleasure in his prospects and just at this moment not much in his possessions. Mina was puzzled, but did not go so far wrong as to conceive him conscience-stricken. She concluded that she must wait for light.