The Diamond Necklace
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- Mathilde is having dinner as M. Loisel comes home holding a large envelope.
- Why, my dear, I thought you would be glad. and this is such a fine opportunity.
- Look dear, there is something for you.
- Alright then, I will give you 400 francs. And try to have a pretty gown.
- An invitation to a Ministerial Ball at the Palace? Pfft! And what do you wish me to do with that?
- Give it to someone else, I've no gown to wear for that ball.
- The day of the ball drew near, and Mathilde seemed sad, uneasy, and anxious. Her frock was ready, however. Her husband said to her one evening:
- Go look up your friend, Madame Forestier, and ask her to lend you some jewels. You're intimate enough with her to do that.
- What's the matter? Come, you've seemed very queer these last three days.
- True! I never thought of it.
- It annoys me not to have a single piece of jewelry. I shall look poverty stricken. I would rather not go at all.
- The next day, Mathilde went to her rich friend, and told her of her distress.
- Choose, my dear
- Why, yes, certainly!
- Thank you Jeanne!
- Will you lend me this? Only this?
- The night of the ball arrived. Madame Loisel was a great success. She was the prettiest. Everyone looked at her, asked her name, sought to be introduced.
- Thank you! I am Mathilde Loisel. And you Madame?
- You look divine! What's your name?
- She left the ball at about 4 o'clock in the morning and reached home via a quay. At home..
- I have--I have--I've lost Madame Forestier's necklace!
- I am so sorry dear!
- What is the matter with you?
- M. Loisel went to police headquarters, to the newspaper offices to offer a reward, cap companies--everywhere but he had found nothing.
- Go look up your friend, Madame Forestier, and ask her to lend you some jewels. You're intimate enough with her to do that.
- What's the matter? Come, you've seemed very queer these last three days.
- True! I never thought of it.
- It annoys me not to have a single piece of jewelry. I shall look poverty stricken. I would rather not go at all.
- I shall go back on foot, over the whole route, to see whether I could find it.
- What!--how? Impossible! If we had lost it in the street we should have heard it fall.
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