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[imchongjun]

Hello, teachers.

Would you help me understand the "good joint situation" in the following passage?

But Londoners of Bunting's class have an uneasy fear of the law. To his mind it would be ruin for him and for his Ellen to be mixed up publicly in such a terrible affair. No one concerned in the business would give them and their future a thought, but it would track them to their dying day, and, above all, it would make it quite impossible for them ever to get again into a good joint situation. It was that for which Bunting, in his secret soul, now longed with all his heart.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2014/2014-8.txt

I suspect the phrase in question means something like "a good relationship between Bunting and Ellen", but I am not quite sure. I appreciate your help very much.

[pugachevV]

It means their shared situation.
In other words their living circumstances, or standard of living.

[imchongjun]

Thank you, pugachevV, for your comment. That makes sense!