Was he going to take her hunting and make sure she had a little accident?
I was trying to keep the details of my little accident a secret.
If so, he might even be able to bring them here and arrange a little accident.
"Honey was our little accident," her mother would tell their friends.
As it happened I had suffered a little accident just a few moments earlier.
"It looks like I escaped from our little accident in better shape than you did."
You couldn't have arranged that little accident, by any manner of means.
In a year or so, when the excitement had died down, another little accident, and it would all be over.
But the sort of little accident we had today is going to happen every day, in one form or another.
That was much too big a result for such a little accident.