He obeyed orders, and that is what we all must do, without always seeing why, or daring to use our own judgment.

It is a great safeguard to Jack, and a very great comfort to me; for I know that if he promises he will keep his word, no matter what it costs him," said Mamma warmly, as she tumbled up the quirls with an irrepressible caress, remembering how the boy came wearily in after all the others, without seeming for a moment to think that he could have done anything else.
"Like Casabianca!" cried Jill, much impressed, for obedience was her hardest trial.
"I think he was a fool to burn up," said Frank, bound not to give in.
"I don't.

It's a splendid piece, and every one likes to speak it, and it was true, and it wouldn't be in all the books if he was a fool.

Grown people know what is good," declared Jill, who liked heroic actions, and was always hoping for a chance to distinguish herself in that way.
"You admire 'The Charge of the Light Brigade,' and glow all over as you thunder it out.

Yet they went gallantly to their death rather than disobey orders.