The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.
The writer called the Levite the "master" of the concubine in Judges 19:26 rather than her husband. Perhaps he did so because the Levite treated her as his property rather than as a person.