According to de Maupassant in the story "The Necklace", Madame Loisel ...had a friend, a former schoolmate at the convent, who was rich, and whom she did not like to go to see any more because she felt so sad when she came home. This friend is arguably the woman who is now known, as an adult, as Madame Forrestier, who is still rich and quite fortunate. As the story says, Mathilde would feel "sad" when she came home each time she would go...
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