When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain""s Oath, words I didn""t appreciate at the time...Freddy!" She hen realized from the shocked look on the nurses"" faces that she had fallen asleep, and they thought she was crazy...Sure, yes, yes, he""s a millionaire, you know, like all the Yanks.But he""s eccentric.Oh, he is eccentric.What till I show ya...His bag to sleep in, a sleeping bag, he calls it.The song, equating Sean Thornton (or his grandfather who ""died in Australia...in a penal colony"") with the wild colonial boy Jack Dugan, continues:At the early age of sixteen years, he left his native home.That""s part of the new way.Alex: New way? What""s this about a new way? There""s been some very large talk behind my sleeping back, and no error..." Her idea was to give Mitch a gift of something hat would remind him of her (from their encounter in the shop and his labeling of her as a bird in a gilded cage) - and possibly to avenge his insulting treatment.