  We investigate the small constant case of a characterization of $A_\infty$
weights due to Fefferman, Kenig and Pipher. In their work, Fefferman, Kenig and
Pipher bound the logarithm of the $A_\infty$ constant by the Carleson norm of a
measure built out of the heat extension, up to a multiplicative and additive
constant (as well as the converse). We prove, qualitatively, that when one of
these quantities is small so is the other. In fact, we show that these
quantities are bounded by a constant times the square root of the other,
provided at least one of them is sufficiently small.
  We also give an application of our result to the study of elliptic measures
associated to elliptic operators with coefficients satisfying the
``Dahlberg-Kenig-Pipher" condition. We suspect that the square root dependence
in the bound used in this application is sharp and give some justification for
this in the last section.
