Perhaps it is because one is always expected to fall into raptures over it.

Does that shock you?
I'm afraid I shock most people.

The fact is, I have been brought up in a circle which has taught me to loathe sentiment.

They were always gushing about their feelings, but the only thing they cared for was money!" "That ought to have made you loathe money," said Stafford, with a smile, and a certain kind of interest; indeed, it was difficult not to feel interested in this beautiful girl, with the face and the form of a goddess, and, apparently, as small a capacity of emotion.
"Oh, no," she said, languidly; "on the contrary, it showed me the value of money.

I saw that if I had not been rich, the daughter of a rich man, I should have been of no account in their eyes.