This wife is going to be very angry

The house, as he drew near, seemed very silent. And, of course, it had every right to be. Long since, the wedding must have taken place and the happy pair departed on their honeymoon. long since, the last guests must have left. And now, beneath that quiet roof, there remained only Mrs. Waddington, no doubt trying out blistering phrases in the seclusion of her boudoir - here, discarding an incandescent adjective in favour of a still zippier one that had just suggested itself: there, realizing that the noun "worm" was too mild and searching in Roget's Thesaurus for something more expressive.

(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)