Perhaps he did not think.

I am sure I shall be very sorry if it is not a good will, for if I do not have the farm and the stock, I don't know what I shall do with my poor children." Mary Erskine had a vague idea that if the will should prove invalid, she and her children would lose the property, in some way or other, entirely,--though she did not know precisely how.

After musing upon this melancholy prospect a moment she asked, "Should not I have _any_ of the property, if the will proves not to be good ?" "Oh yes," said Mrs.Bell, "you will have a considerable part of it, at any rate." "How much ?" asked Mary Erskine.
"Why about half, I believe," replied Mrs.Bell.
"Oh," said Mary Erskine, apparently very much relieved.

"That will do very well.

Half will be enough.