A few months after she married Necker she cordially invited Gibbon to her house every day of his sojourn in Paris.

If Gibbon had behaved in the unworthy way asserted, if she had had her feelings so profoundly touched and lacerated as Moultou declares, would she, or even could she, have acted thus?
If she was conscious of being wronged, and he was conscious--as he must have been--of having acted basely, or at least unfeelingly, is it not as good as certain that both parties would have been careful to see as little of each other as possible?
A broken-off love-match, even without complication of unworthy conduct on either side, is generally an effective bar to further intercourse.

But in this case the intercourse is renewed on the very first opportunity, and never dropped till the death of one of the persons concerned.
Two letters have been preserved of Gibbon and Madame Necker respectively, nearly of the same date, and both referring to this rather delicate topic of their first interviews after her marriage.
Gibbon writes to his friend Holroyd, "The Curchod (Madame Necker) I saw in Paris.

She was very fond of me, and the husband particularly civil.

Could they insult me more cruelly?
Ask me every evening to supper, go to bed and leave me alone with his wife--what impertinent security! It is making an old lover of mighty little consequence.