THE GREAT ANCESTOR
But I and the others are all you.... You are we, we are you; and it's all the same thing.
TYLTYL
Not for me.... They keep on telling me to hold my tongue, that it's not my business, that it's no concern of mine.... Everybody's allowed to get a word in, except me.... I've had enough, I'm sick and tired of it!... Where do I come in? That's what I want to know!
THE GREAT ANCESTOR
You're simply acting as all men act when they think they are doing what they want to do.
TYLTYL
But, after all, dash it, what business is it of yours? I can understand, in a way, that the children I may one day have should claim some right to select their mother; but the rest of you, over here, what difference can it make to you?
THE GREAT ANCESTOR
Don't you see that it's all the same? Those who have lived in you live in you just as much as those who are going to. There is no difference, it all connects and it's still the same family.