"Decidedly not - unless perhaps I have, it having taken place so clandestinely, at night perhaps, that no one noticed.  In which case it would be - or has been, if such be the case - no skin off my nose.  But the point is that it was not my living room... nor would I presume to lay down rules for another man's living room.  It was Mike's house... and his wife - common law or otherwise, we need not inquire.  So what business is it of mine?  Or yours?  You go into a man's house, you accept his household rules - that's a universal law of civilized behavior."