[He looks distinctly aggrieved at that, and yet… I should have expected it. She is behaving exactly as he would have assumed that she would.]

Where I come from, people might think so. [He doesn’t, necessarily, but he is aware of how the world is.] But you knew what I meant.

[The way she framed it proves him right: they both understand that he means he won’t try to fuck her. With what he knows of her, he can’t be sure that she won’t try the same with him. But it doesn’t matter if she does.

He adds, a little more gently,]

You’re safe with me, whatever that means to you.