Mrs. Ames by E.F. Benson

"And what's to be done now? " said Major Ames, chipping his bacon high into the air above his plate. "If you didn't hear me, I said, ‘What's to be done now? ' I don't know how you can look Riseborough in the face again, and, upon my word, I don't see how I can. They'll point at me in the street, and say, ‘That's Major Ames, whose wife made a fool of herself. ' That's what you did, Amy. You made a fool of yourself. And what was the good of it all? Are you any nearer getting the vote than before, because you've screamed ‘Votes for Women' a dozen times? You've only given a proof the more of how utterly unfit you are to have anything at all of your own, let alone a vote. I passed a sleepless night with thinking of your folly, and I feel infernally unwell this morning."

This clearly constituted a climax, and Mrs. Ames took advantage of the rhetorical pause that followed.