The Man says
No fear! Shan’t ‘ave no need for it like as not.
All right, little Daisy; you can’t be expected to see things like we do.
What’s life, anyway? I’ve seen a thousand lives taken in five minutes.
I’ve seen dead men on the wires like flies on a flypaper.
I’ve been as good as dead meself a hundred times.
I’ve killed a dozen men. It’s nothin’.
He’s safe, if ‘e don’t get my blood up.
If he does, nobody’s safe; not ‘im, nor anybody else; not even you.
I’m speakin’ sober.