Jaquith as she boarded the ship in New York:Now, pull your own weight.I""ve taught you the technique, now use it.Forget you""re a hidebound New Englander.Unbend, take part, contribute.Be interested in everything - and everybody.Charlotte becomes more self-assured, confident and attractive and she discovers life anew.The camera zooms in on the chic young woman""s amused face as she converses with her fellow tourist - she recalls her mother""s words of warning years ago:Charlotte: I was thinking of my mother.Nothing else, nothing else mattered.The porter at the locked iron gate of her apartment is surprised to see her waiting outside the gate after she rings he bell.On the warfront, Ben reads letters from home, and his dreams of Elsie are stirred when he looks at her picture again.In "an historical facsimile" tableaux, President Lincoln signs the proclamation for the First Call for 75,000 volunteers, "to enforce the rule of the coming nation over the individual states.[Note: The outlaws represent an un-idealized version of the ""western"" Japanese samurai warriors in Akira Kurosawa""s epicThe Seven Samurai (1954) -a film that Peckinpah used as a model.