Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is excellent--here's an excerpt fr the climax of the story--p. 123
The house was silent.
Montag approached from the rear . . .
"Mrs. Black, are you asleep in there," he thought. This is not good but your husband did it to others and never asked and never worried. And now since you are a fireman's wife, it's your house and your turn, for all the houses your husband burned and the people he hurt without thinking.
. . .
He hid the books in the kitchen . . .
. . . he phoned (in) the alarm at a lonely phone booth . . .
Then he stood in the cold night air, waiting . . .
Good night, Mrs. Black, he thought.
