"No, no, I'll be - fine. You want me to go ask around for such places, or have you already done that?"

There is no way possible he's going to let her go alone. An unaccompanied woman, from what he knows, is highly unlikely to fare all that well alone - even in the better brothels he's known, patrons high on their booze are unlikely to mind their own business.

"You do know that... things are prob'ly going to be far less - regulated than you're used to, right?"