Excerpt from the Necklace p3

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Which detail identifies the point where the tension eases in this excerpt?

[4] They looked among the folds of her skirt, of her cloak, in her pockets, everywhere, but did not find it . . .

[5] Her husband returned about seven o'clock. He had found nothing.

[6] He went to police headquarters, to the newspaper offices to offer a reward; he went to the cab companies—everywhere, in fact, whither he was urged by the least spark of hope.

[7] She waited all day, in the same condition of mad fear before this terrible calamity.

[8] Loisel returned at night with a hollow, pale face. He had discovered nothing. . . .

[9] At the end of a week they had lost all hope. Loisel, who had aged five years, declared:

[10] "We must consider how to replace that ornament."