The Lottery Winner by Marry Higgins Clark p.68

“Good-bye, Jeff,” Cynthia said. She broke the connection, left the phone off the hook, and turned her back to it.

Apparently written not only before cell phones, but in the time when phones were actually wired directly into the wall with no little clippy things to make it easier.

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