"Daughter of Icarius, sensible Penelope,
whatever gifts your suitors would like to bring,
accept them. How ungracious to turn those gifts away!
We won’t go back to our own estates, or anywhere else,
till you have wed the man you find the best."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 18, lines 321-325. Dramatic irony is used with humorous effect when Antinous demands that Penelope choose the "best" suitor to marry. He is not aware that her husband Odysseus is in the room at the time.