Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 2.4.1.14

2.4.1.14

athāto gṛhāṇāmevopacāraḥ | etaddha vai gṛhapateḥ proṣuṣa āgatādgṛhāḥ samuttrastā iva bhavanti kimayamiha vadiṣyati kiṃ vā kariṣyatīti sa yo ha tatra kiṃcidvadati vā karoti vā tasmādgṛhāḥ pratrasanti tasyeśvaraḥ kulaṃ vikṣobdhoratha yo ha tatra na vadati na kiṃ cana karoti taṃ gṛhā upasaṃśrayante na vā ayamihāvādīnna kiṃ canākaraditi sa yadihāpi sukruddha iva syācva eva tatastatkuryādyadvadiṣyanvā kariṣyanvā syādeṣa u gṛhāṇāmupacāraḥ

Then as to the observances in regard to (the entering of) his house. Now when a householder comes home from a journey, his house trembles greatly for fear of him, thinking, 'What will he say here? what will he do here?' It is therefore for fear of him that speaks or does anything on this occasion that the house trembles and is liable to crush his family; but him who neither speaks nor does anything, his house receives with confidence, thinking, 'He has not spoken here, he has not done anything here!' And should he be ever so angry at anything on this occasion, let him rather do on the next day whatever he might wish to say or do. This then is the observance in regard to the house.