"Sven, I'll order anything you want.  But I won't touch it and I won't let Mike touch it.  For I'll lay heavy odds that any waiter who comes to this suite will be on Kung's payroll... and maybe on two or three others'.  I'm not seeing boogie men behind bushes; they know where we are - and they've had a couple of hours in which to act.  Sven, in cold seriousness, my principal worry has been to keep this lad alive long enough to figure out a way to sterilize and stabilize the power he represents... so that it would be to no one's advantage to have him dead."