Dignity enters the hexagram at the fifth position. Legge's translation calls this the noble return and states that there will be no ground for repentance, a formula slightly different from the opening line's promise: not that repentance is unnecessary because the fault was small, but that nothing remains to repent of because the return has been made completely.
The quality named here is self examination. This is the central line of the upper trigram Kun, the earth, and although a yielding stroke stands in an odd place, incorrect by the letter of the rule, centrality carries the position entirely. Commentary connects the nobility of the return to honesty with oneself: the person represented does not soften the account, does not distribute the blame, and does not require anyone else to move first. Having looked squarely at what went wrong, they turn without conditions.
Set against the third line's repeated slipping and the fourth line's solitary turn, this is the return that finally holds. It is generous rather than grudging, and the phrasing, no ground for repentance, describes a settled state rather than a narrow escape. Here is Return at its ruling place, showing what the hexagram looks like when its movement is carried all the way through to the end.