The external conflict that was proven unnecessary by the end of the story involved the Loisels' distress over the loss of the borrowed necklace, their effort to replace it, their borrowing money for the replacement and then struggling for ten years to repay the borrowed money, and finally Mathilde Loisel's finding out from her friend that the lost necklace had been a fake. Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took her hands. "Oh, my poor Mathilde!...
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