It was the mockery he made of marriage that first set BJ off.

"You married?"

"Someone will have to get me pregnant first."

Then, the flippant attitude.

"If he didn't always return, I'd wish hell on McArthur for this. But I think it'd give him ideas."

The drinking sure didn't help.

"Gin?"

"It's eight in the morning!"

"Good, we have time."

The detestation burned in him like a fire --

"When?"

"Middle of the night. He went peacefully, and -- Hawkeye!"

"I'm fine. There's just something in my eye."

and soon was nothing more than a pile of smoldering ashes.