"I would say YES if I were sure I really meant it."
"You will mean it one day."
"Are you sure God will teach me?"
"I think he cares more to do that than anything else."
"More than to save us?"
"What is saving but taking us out of the dark into the light? There is no salvation but to know God and grow like him."
CHAPTER VII
A GENEROUS DOWRY.
The only hope of the chief's mother was in what the girl's father might say to her son's proposal. Would not his pride revolt against giving his daughter to a man who would not receive his blessing in money?
Mr. Peregrine Palmer arrived, and the next day Alister called upon him.