If a panhandler had those, he wouldn't be a panhandler.

Any more than that chap, to-night, was a panhandler.

My idea of acting as a bodyguard for you isn't bad.

Think it over.

You seem to need one." "Why do you say that ?" demanded Milo, in one of his recurrent flashes of suspicion.
"Because," said Gavin, "we're living in the twentieth century and in real life, not in the dark ages and in a dime novel.
Nowadays, a man doesn't risk capital punishment, lightly, for the fun of springing on a total stranger, in the dark, with a razor-edge knife.