The Necklace (SCRIPTED)

Scene 10 - 12: The Lost Jewel

Scene 10
Narrator: Just to find the lost borrowed necklace of his wife, Monsieur Loisel went to the police station, to the newspapers, to offer a reward, to the cab companies, everywhere a ray of hope impelled in him. But on the other side...

(curtains open)

Madame Mathilde: (crying) Oh my...the necklace! Where did it might fell, where?

And my husband where is he now? Will he going to find it?

Monsieur Loisel: (knocks) dear, dear....!

Madame Mathilde: Coming! (opens the door. Monsieur Loisel enters.)

So what's the news about the necklace?

Monsieur Loisel: (sighs) No sign of it. I've done all I could to find it.

Madame Mathilde: Oh, no! What shall we do?

Monsieur Loisel: You must write to your friend.

Tell her that you've broken the clasp of her necklace and are getting it mended. And that will give us time to look for it.

Madame Mathilde: You're right. (Goes out to the drawer, takes out a paper and plume and starts to right)

(curtains close)

Scene 11
Narrator: By the end of the week, and the borrowed necklace was not found. That's why they lost all hope. So Monsieur Loisel declares to replace the diamonds. Then the next day they took the box which had held the necklace and went to the jewelers whose name was inside.

(curtains open)

(Jeweler examines the jewels. Monsieur and Madame Loisel enter with the necklace's case in hand.)

Jeweler:Bonjour, Madame and Monsieur! What can I do for you?

Monsieur Loisel: Bon jour, Monsieur.

We want to know if you had made the necklace in this case, since your name was printed in this case.

Jeweler: Let me see it please. (opens the case and opens his book)

I'm sorry but it was not I who sold this necklace; ...

I must have merely supplied the clasp.

Madame Mathilde: Thank you, Monsieur. Aurevoir.

(Monsieur and Madame Loisel exit.)

(curtains close)

Narrator: Then they went from jeweler to jeweler, searching for another necklace like the first one, consulting their memories, both ill with remorse and anguish of mind.

Scene 12
Narrator: In a shop at the Palais-Royal...

(curtains open)

(Monsieur and Madame Loisel were inside the shop looking at the group of necklaces)

Madame Mathilde: (points at a necklace) Look, Loise!

Monsieur Loisel: Oui! It looks like that of Madame Forestier! (approaches at the jeweler)

Excuse me, Monsieur. How much does this necklace costs?

Jeweler: (points at the necklace) That? That cost forty thousand francs!

Madame Mathilde: Please monsieur. Can we have it for thirty-six thousand francs?

Jeweler: (doubts) Ummmm....

Madame Mathilde: Please monsieur.

Jeweler: Oui, madame.

Monsieur and Madame Loisel: Thank you!

Monsieur Loisel: And please...... don't sell this one for three days. We'll be back, to pay it.

Narrator: And so the jeweler agreed on the arranged matters on the understanding that it would be taken back for thirty-four thousand francs, if the first one were found before the end of February.

(Monsieur and Madame Loisel exit.)

(curtains down)