"If it comes in my way," said Mr.Forrest, "I will give you plenty of time, so that you may manage about the renewal with Sowerby.

I suppose he'll pay the expense of doing that." Mark's heart was somewhat lighter as he left the bank.

Mr.Forrest had made so little of the whole transaction that he felt himself justified in making little of it also.

"It may be as well," said he to himself, as he drove home, "not to tell Fanny anything about it till the three months have run round.

I must make some arrangement then." And in this way his mind was easier during the last of those three months than it had been during the two former.