When I first read "the manly consideration toward Mrs. Dickens" I thought he was talking about sex. Having assumed that meaning, the next part about how her si

When I first read "the manly consideration toward Mrs. Dickens" I thought he was talking about sex. Having assumed that meaning, the next part about how her sister raising the children seemed to suggest that they had not had sex and that the children were not Mrs Dickens's. But I think I was wrong because, he then goes on to strongly deny having an affair. Why hint at one affair, then deny another.