`` you have been more than that since the night i took you home . `` so i figure you owe him , seeing as how he 's the one who killed the guy . '' `` it might serve you better to simply walk away . '' `` i did n't protect my wife from the order . it did , however , get bark to wonder what exactly the general did have against christmas . she turned her head and sought out his picture on the mantel above the fireplace that she never used . 