Mary""s upon her arrival in Louisiana.And then Mrs.Venable broached therealreason for summoning the doctor - her wish was to keep her family""s mental breakdowns shielded from public view, and curtail the terrible things that Catherine was saying about Sebastian." Shane is mocked and treated as one of the cowardly homesteaders: "Well, what""ll it be - lemon, strawberry, or lilac, sodbuster?" Shane responds: "You speakin"" to me?"Shane does everything in his power to resist a showdown.Soon, everyone is devouring the whole pig.That evening, the young boys are ordered to the front for "wiring duty" - their mission is to string barbed wire during the middle of the night.I""m named after him.Besides, we""re the only relatives he has in the world.Meanwhile, Charlie""s younger brother Roger (Charles Bates) has burst through the front door, sharing his mathematical obsession with measuring distances by his footsteps: "Do you know how many steps I have to take to get from here to the drugstore and back? Six hundred and forty-nine.