Briefly state how Matilda invited ‘a dreadful life of necessity’ into her family.
Loisels had lost the necklace and needed time to find a similar one. Thus, Loisels wrote a letter to Mayme Forestier on the pretext that the necklace's strut was broken and that he needed time to repair it.
The necklace cost Loiselles thirty-six thousand francs. Loisel had to borrow his entire inheritance of eighteen thousand francs and the rest from moneylenders. This cost him a great deal and he had to spend the rest of his life in misery and poverty.
To pay off a debt of eighteen thousand francs, Loisels gave up his decent life. They lived in poor (poor) neighbourhoods. Matilda had to cook, clean, wash, mend, fetch water, and bargain with butchers and grocers. Her husband worked day and night to save every soul.