"What's the matter with you?" asked her husband, already half undressed.
She turned towards him in the uttermost distress.
"I... I...I've no longer got Madame Forestier's necklace…”
He started with astonishment.
"What!...Impossible!"
They searched in the folds of her dress, in the folds of her coat, in the pockets, everywhere. They could not find it.
"Are you sure that you still had it on when you came away from the ball?" he asked.
"Yes, I touched it in the hall at the Ministry."
"But if you had lost it in the street, we should have heard it fall."