That is an excellent guess from your example, and money could very well be part of it, [he says, sounding notably pleased with this answer. It could be easy to assume he's merely pleased by the sincerity alone and that's not an entirely false assumption. But Vergil is glad to see Nero using context to find the meaning. That's more important to him than the accuracy of his response.] Scruples are your moral compass. They are the things that tell you right from wrong. To the priest you were mocking, those come from his faith and he would likely deem those who turn away from it to be without scruples. But you well know that religion is hardly the only means of developing morals for oneself.

So, knowing that, if I described someone you had not yet met as being scrupulous, what would you assume about them? What do you assume they would be like were they to be faced with a difficult choice?