I haven't done wrong--have I?
As I understood it, there was no alternative.

Geoffrey told me you had settled with him to present yourself here as a married lady, whose husband was coming to join her." "I thought of _him_ when I said that.

I never thought of _you_." "Natural enough.

Still, it comes to the same thing (doesn't it ?) with the people of this house." "I don't understand you." "I will try and explain myself a little better.

Geoffrey said your position here depended on my asking for you at the door (as _he_ would have asked for you if he had come) in the character of your husband." "He had no right to say that." "No right?
After what you have told me of the landlady, just think what might have happened if he had _not_ said it! I haven't had much experience myself of these things.