Select the correct text in the passage.
Which detail identifies the point where the pacing speeds up in this excerpt?
[18] But one Sunday, having gone to take a walk in the Champs Elysees to refresh herself after the
labors of the week, she suddenly perceived a woman who was leading a child. It was Madame
Forestier, still young, still beautiful, still charming.
[19] Madame Loisel felt moved. Should she speak to her? Yes, certainly. And now that she had paid,
she would tell her all about it. Why not?
[20] She went up.
[21] "Good-day, Jeanne."
[22] The other, astonished to be familiarly addressed by this plain good-wife, did not recognize her
at all and stammered:
[23] "But-madame!-I do not know-You must have mistaken."
[24] "No. I am Mathilde Loisel."
[25] Her friend uttered a cry.
[26] "Oh, my poor Mathilde! How you are changed!"