Read the following from the poem:
"one moment madam! s sensing her receiver rearing on the thunderclap about my ears - "madam," i "
using information in these lines, the reader most likely infer that the landlady
a. hesitates before scolding the speaker for his rudeness
b. raises the telephone as if to strike the speaker in the head
c. intends to disconnect the speaker by hanging up on him
d. shifts away from the telephone receiver in stunned silence