Later, we'll see Lady Neidpath rising from her chair in horror, as she is told that she had committed a lapse, fifty years ago. Cheating, being dishonest, breaking the good-citizen rules, would be a lapse of honor. So it would be sanctioned in this way. Sometimes this personal code may be seen not so much as honor, but as living up to your own standards, or living up to how you think of yourself, or fulfilling a responsibility that you have taken upon yourself. But morality goes beyond being honorable.
Moral considerations seem to be in the forefront of people's minds.
For at least some persons in the village, moral principles orient them, guiding them through life. I think this is true for tradespeople such as Arthur and Carole, with their service ethic . Being in association with Edna, I gradually became aware that her moral nature was different from mine. She was much more concerned about what was the right thing to do, in the various situations that came along in life. In deciding what to do, she worried about the effect that possible actions of hers might have on various other people.