Her husband' came back a about seven o' clock. He had found nothing.
He went to Police Headquarters, to the newspaper offices, to offer a reward; he went to the cab companies everywhere, in fact, whither he was urged by the least suspicion of hope.
She waited all day, in the same condition of mad fear before this terrible calamity.
Loisel returned at night with a hollow, pale face; he had discovered nothing.
You must write to your friend, said he, that you have broken the clasp of her necklace and that you are having it mended. That will give us time to turn round.