With women he was quite the reverse.

With women he could be happy.

With women he could really associate.

A woman he could really love;--but I doubt whether for all that he could treat a woman well.
But he was known in the Oxfordshire country as a man who knew what he was about, and such men are always welcome.

It is the man who does not know how to ride that is made uncomfortable in the hunting field by cold looks or expressed censure.