 She did however pass funds to him from time to time, although things did not always go smoothly.In 1848, while Karl was living in Brussels, she paid him 6,000 francs.Suspecting that the funds might be intended to finance the revolutionary movement, the Belgian police asked the Trier authorities to question Henriette, they accepting her explanation that "her son had long been asking for money for his family and this was an advance on his inheritance".