[follows no nobler principle than that of self-interest]

Antoni spends the rest of the convention on his best behavior, such as it is, which in practice mostly means trying to guess how his liege wants him to vote and occasionally making speeches about issues his liege seems to feel particularly strongly about. His priorities are strange, and his opinions moreso, but the man did spend a century in Axis. Anyone unusual enough to make Neutral is going to be unusual, even before whatever changes he accumulated in the afterlife.

He writes to Constança faithfully with updates on the convention's business and what it means for their family. To Joan, with books on theology with the mark of Lastwall's approval. To his daughters, with his best guess at what sort of father his liege-lord approves of. (Men of Axis are even stranger in this respect than most, all the most unreasonable aspects of Osirion's breed of Lawfulness blended with Andoran's permissiveness and the ignorance of men who haven't seen a normal child in a century.)

When the convention concludes his liege-lord still has yet to tell him whether he intends to retain him as baron. Antoni's guess is that if he were determined to strip him of his titles no matter what, he would simply do so here — much easier to do it here with only the small company of guards who accompanied him to the convention opposing him, much safer not to give him the chance to flee with all his barony's valuables. 

He returns home.