Punctilious

Page 64 "This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness."

Definition:: marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions

Forms of the word: punctiliously(adverb), punctiliousness(noun), punctilious(adjective)

"Punctilious and distinguished academics made this decision and to suggest they twisted the truth to back it up is a dangerous fantasy."

Unknown by the reading public, for whom she was anonymous, Miss Hemelrijk was the queen of the fact-checkers, a crackerjack researcher and a punctilious copy editor.