The best thing you can do will be to leave her to herself as much as possible.

It will all wear off.

I've no doubt she'll be married to Gilfil before long.

Girls' fancies are easily diverted from one object to another.

By jove, what a rate my heart is galloping at! These confounded palpitations get worse instead of better.' Thus ended the conversation, so far as it concerned Caterina, not without leaving a distinct resolution in Captain Wybrow's mind--a resolution carried into effect the next day, when he was in the library with Sir Christopher for the purpose of discussing some arrangements about the approaching marriage.
'By the by,' he said carelessly, when the business came to a pause, and he was sauntering round the room with his hands in his coat-pockets, surveying the backs of the books that lined the walls, 'when is the wedding between Gilfil and Caterina to come off, sir?
I've a fellow-feeling for a poor devil so many fathoms deep in love as Maynard.
Why shouldn't their marriage happen as soon as ours?
I suppose he has come to an understanding with Tina ?' 'Why,' said Sir Christopher, 'I did think of letting the thing be until old Crichley died; he can't hold out very long, poor fellow; and then Maynard might have entered into matrimony and the rectory both at once.
But, after all, that really is no good reason for waiting.