Suddenly, in an upstairs bedroom, the ringing of an alarm clock is heard, and Firefly appears in bed with a nightshirt, nightcap, and cigar.But Prewitt defiantly refuses and flatly rejects the commander""s offer.The Captain, a defender of team spirit, observes how Prewitt""s principled stubbornness ("as a lone wolf") is disobedient and unacceptable in the Army - where individualism doesn""t count:Looks to me as if you""re trying to acquire a reputation as a lone wolf, Prewitt.Seven generations of them." The widow chides him for wanting to turn the thatched cottage, termed White O"" Mornin"", into "a national shrine, perhaps charge tuppence a visit for a guided tour through the little thatched cottage where all he Thorntons were born.He then recalls his worshipped and idealized memory of Catherine""s mother as charming and talented, by way of an unfair comparison: "Her mother, who had so much grace and gaiety...to cut the head off the snake").Back in Dale, Legolas and Tauriel returned and warned of the approach from the North of a second Orc army led by Bolg: "Bolg leads a force of Gundabad Orcs.