He was a man of strong passions and quite unbalanced.

I suppose he had been so utterly spoilt as a child, a boy, and a young man, that he never acquired any power of self-control at all." "M'm, I should have thought that in that case he'd have been more likely to murder the man," said Mr.Flexen.
"He was," said Mr.Manley in ready agreement.

"But the other's always possible." "Yes; one has to bear every possibility in mind," said Mr.Flexen.

"I've heard that he was a bad-tempered man." "He was the most unpleasant brute I ever came across in my life," said Mr.Manley with heartfelt conviction.
"Then he had enemies ?" said Mr.Flexen.
"Scores, I should think.

But, of course, I don't know.