Decoud is probably thinking of the imminent fall of Sulaco, but his caveat also foreshadows Teresa's death (which will occur later this night) and Giorgio's inability to run the establishment without her. If so, there is an allegorical dimension here. I will argue that the death of Teresa (who represents material betterment) marks the end of Giorgio's ideal of Liberty: it stands for the historical change in which the people no longer see their betterment forthcoming from the old Libertarian Republic, and instead turn their revolutionary prospects to the overthrow of the republic. In this sense the symbolic "servants" of Liberty will never return.