But he does so with delicacy, and only by implication; she charges him coarsely with vulgar admiration for it.

We may reasonably suspect that riches had been the subject of not altogether smooth conversation between them, in the later part of the evening, perhaps, after M.
Necker had retired in triumph to bed.

One might even fancy that there was a tacit allusion by Madame Necker to the dialogue recorded by Gibbon to Holroyd, when his smile checked her indirect pride in her own wealth, and that she remembered that smile with just a touch of resentment.

If so, nothing was more natural and comforting than to charge him with the failing that he had detected in her.

But here are the facts.