Well, I'd be inclined to think that, as a servant of the lord, the page was probably under a lot of pressure to report everything. If Lord XX found out later that stuff had been going on and the page hadn't reported it, the page would certainly have lost his head and it could have affected the rest of his family adversely, too--lords were big on *seriously* heavy fines and things of that nature. While I certainly think it was underhanded, he might have felt he had no choice. And he was probably a young man (if Matty can use it as an excuse, why shouldn't the page?).

I don't admire this kind of society but it was there anyway. I don't blame any one of them in particular.