Nothing, apparently, could have raised his spirits more than the knowledge that old Josiah Wilsey had not signed the Declaration.
He actually chuckled a little.

"So like Wilsey himself," he thought.

"No moral courage; calls it conservatism." Then his joy abated.

Just so, he thought, must he himself appear to Mrs.Wayne.Yet his self-respect insisted that his case was different.

Loyalty had been responsible not for his conservatism, but for the pig-headedness with which he had acted upon it.