Likewise the cannibal.

I think I can promise that you will neither be beaten nor eaten,--but you do run a little risk in being abroad on such a night as this,--and alone." She stiffened.

"I don't think there is the slightest danger, Mr.
Percival." "I wasn't thinking of danger," he said.

"There is a lot of difference between danger and consequences.

You see, you might have been mistaken in your man.