This is a very good question. Monsieur Loisel is to be blamed for the misery he endures because it was mainly his idea to replace the lost necklace rather than tell Madame Forestier the truth and offer to pay her for it in installments. No doubt Loisel's wife Mathilde would have gone directly to her friend and confessed that she had lost the necklace. If she had actually done that, she would have learned that it was a fake, and she could have...
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