GRANDMOTHER: Get it out of your hands? (he has it now) Deed your father got from the government the very year the government got it from the Indians?
(rising) Give me that! (she turns to FEJEVARY) Tell him he's crazy. We got the best land 'cause we was first here. We got a right to keep it.
FEJEVARY: (going soothingly to her) It's true, Silas, it is a serious thing to give away one's land.
SILAS: You ought to know. You did it. Are you sorry you did it?
FEJEVARY: No. But wasn't that different?
SILAS: How was it different? Yours was a fight to make life more, wasn't it? Well, let this be our way.
GRANDMOTHER: What's all that got to do with giving up the land that should provide for our own children?
SILAS: Isn't it providing for them to give them a better world to live in? Felix—you're young, I ask you, ain't it providing for them to give them a chance to be more than we are?
FELIX: I think you're entirely right, Uncle Silas. But it's the practical question that—
SILAS: If you're right, the practical question is just a thing to fix up.