She had to think too of what Mrs.Moon would say to it--of what she would say to him.
Mrs.Moon had a good deal to say to it.

She took Juliana's illness as a personal affront, as a deliberate back-handed blow struck at the memory of Tollington Moon.

With all the base implications of her daily acts, Juliana had never attempted anything like this.
"Capers and nonsense," she said, "Juliana has never had an illness in her life." She said it to Rhoda Vivian, the bold young person who had taken upon herself to bring the doctor into the house.

Mrs.Moon spoke of the doctor as if he was a disease.
Fortunately Miss Vivian was by when he endured the first terrifying encounter.

Her manner suggested that she took him under her protection, stood between him and some unfathomable hostility.
He found the Old Lady disentangling herself with immense dignity from her maze of furniture.