The story does follow a prototypical " Disney formula" almost to a fault which makes the Macguffin narrative easy to follow but predictable in some cases.
He was a strong and gifted athlete, charming, smart, and immensely good-looking, handsome almost to a fault, in the description of William H. Cropper, an Adonis in the words of another admirer.
He was liberal to a fault; and his many acts of kindness and transparent goodness of heart rendered him popular in the community, the sentiment of which he unceasingly combated.
I've always been sensitive and empathetic by nature, sometimes to a fault but I know that I can be even more compassionate because every day I'm reminded of this by the children I work with.
Why, one of the partners of Mr. Laurence, where Uncle John has been ever so long, was saying that he was conscientious almost to a fault as a business man, and above reproach in all things.