Compare the silver tied "round Nostromo's neck."

As usual, Decoud analyzes Charles Gould's ideal correctly, but his analysis of Mrs Gould seems somewhat simplistic. We have been told that she had vaster ambitions of "rehabilitation" that go beyond Charles alone. Where Decoud is correct is that Charles is the means to her ambitions, and thus she is tied, through him, to the fate of Gould Concession.