The story happened in Paris in 1860

The story happened in Paris in 1860. One evening Mathilde’s husband, Pie rre Loisel, came home from work /with great joy, because he not only had been invited to the palace ball but was the only person in his office that was invited. He told his wife the wonderful news. Mathilde was so excited that /she couldn’t believe what she was told. When she realized it was true. She thought she couldn’t go /because she didn’t have an evening dress or jewellery for the ball. She was afraid of being laughed at. At last /Pierre decided to spend all the money they had /buying a dress for her and advised her to borrow jewellery from Jeanne, her friend /who married a man with much money. The next day Mathilde called on her friend, Jeanne, and asked if she could lend some jewellery to her, Jeanne brought out all her jewellery and let Mathilde choose the one she liked best. Mathilde noticed a lovely diamond necklace with a big blue stone in the center, wore it and was very satisfied.

On the evening when the ball was held, Mathilde was wearing the dress/ on which she spent 400 francs and the necklace borrowed from her friend /and went to the ball with Pierre. They had a very good time at the party.

But it was on that night that they found the necklace was missing on their way home. They went back to the palace and looked for it everywhere. Unluckily, they couldn’t find it. “What’s to be done?” Both of them were in deep thought.