Then they went from jeweller to jeweller, searching for another necklace like the first, consulting their memories, both ill with remorse and anguish of mind.
 In a shop at the Palais-Royal they found a string of diamonds which seemed to them He When Madame Loisel took back the necklace to Madame Forestier, the latter said to her in a chilly voice:
 "You ought to have brought it back sooner; I might have needed it."
 She did not, as her friend had feared, open the case. If she had noticed the substitution, what would she have thought? What would she have said? Would she not have taken her for a thief?