How did the protagonist look before losing the necklace ? Support your answer with direct evidence from the text

Mathilde Loisel feels like a princess.

She danced wildly, with passion, drunk on pleasure, forgetting everything in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, in a sort of cloud of happiness, made up of all this respect, all this admiration, all these awakened desires, of that sense of triumph that is so sweet to a woman's heart.

What was the protagonist’s status in society before losing the necklace?