Which line in this excerpt from Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" reveals situational irony? *
1 point
It was Madame Forestier, still young, still beautiful, still charming. Madame
Loisel felt moved. Should she speak to her? Yes, certainly. And now that she had
paid, she would tell her all about it. Why not?
"Yes, I have had a pretty hard life, since I last saw you, and great poverty-and
that because of you!"
"I brought you back another exactly like it. And it has taken us ten years to pay
for it. You can understand that it was not easy for us, for us who had nothing. At
last it is ended, and I am very glad."
"Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste! It was worth at most only
five hundred francs!