They first looked for the necklace everywhere, with Monsieur even going back on foot over their route home. He contacted Police Headquarters, the newspaper, cab companies, and offered a reward. Madame Loisel asked Madam Forestier for more time to return the necklace, saying she had broken the clasp and needed to fix it. Monsieur and Madame Loisel searched for the jeweler who made the necklace, found one which looked like the one they lost, bargained with the jeweler, and borrowed ruinously to pay his exhorbitant price. They had to change their lifestyle completely to pay back the debt - Monsieur worked two and sometimes three jobs, and Madame became like a "woman of impoverished households", coarse and rough, bowed by hard work. After ten years the debt was finally paid.