Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious quarrels with whoever might cross his path.
En lugar de hacer amistades e intercambiar visitas con nuestros vecinos, que al principio se alegraron muchísimo de ver a un Roylott de Stoke Moran instalado de nuevo en la vieja mansión familiar, se encerró en la casa sin salir casi nunca, a no ser para enzarzarse en furiosas disputas con cualquiera que se cruzase en su camino.