Why did everything seem so boring now?

Had parting with the necklace - the trinket that answered only to me - eroded my sense of significance in the world. True, I would not longer be able to rely on it to get me out of sticky situations, but that was the same as the way things had been before I ever received it. I would manage. Besides, I still had the money - [i]lots[/i] of it. I would basically buy whatever I wanted, no questions asked!

Yet I was feeling glum.

"Hey, Vivian," I asked, sitting down in a nice, comfy armchair as soon as I arrived in the living room. "Do you feel... odd, by any chance? I've had a very strange feeling ever since we sold that necklace... it feels like everything happy is gone from the world..."