"You must never go back from it," said Jill looking up at him solemnly. "It's a vow! You can't break a vow, it's a much more solemn thing than a promise!"
"But I don't mean to make no vow!" said Sam.
That would not suit Jill at all. She talked away to him, and finally threatened that she would get Miss Falkner to come and see him and explain it to him.
"She'll make you see you ought to do it."
"I'll do my best, missy, but 'tis the prayer you say I must make, stumps me. I've been a-looking through the chapter, an' Jacob he spoke up very certain-like about the Lord being his God. I don't set up to be a religious man myself, and I don't want to make no promises that I bain't a-goin' to keep!"
Jill insisted upon getting her Bible and reading the verses through to him.
"Jacob doesn't promise anything wonderful, Sam. He only says if God will be good to him and take care of him, he will make Him his God, and give his tenth to Him. Why the Lord is your God, Sam, isn't He?"
"I don't know what the words mean rightly," said Sam dubiously.
"They just mean that you must belong to God, and He will belong to you. You do belong to Him already, Sam, you know you do!"
"I bain't so sure."