[This is just not acceptable. She can't let him think that way.]

Now, listen here, Ralph! I think you are a perfectly kind person and you certainly deserve to at least sleep with a roof over your head, out of the freezing rain! Maybe I don't know enough to get the finer points of your story, but I know I good heart when I see one. So you had better think about changing your tune!

[HANDS ON HIPS.] I'll make you a deal. You stay here for the night, and if something gets wrecked? I won't ever bother you again! But if it doesn't? You stay. Sound fair?