The Cable by Marion Ames Taggart

There was a new element in life for Cis, a chord in its accompaniment / that jarred, though she tried not to hear it. For the first time since / she had been old enough to deal consciously with other people, Cis had / done something in relation to another of which she was ashamed. When / she omitted Mass on days of obligation, when it occurred to her that / her infrequency at the sacraments was not to her credit, she was a / little sorry, half resolved to do better, but she was not ashamed; she / indirectly counted upon "fixing it up. " It is a noteworthy fact that / people who do less for God expect Him to do more for them; they read / the text: "because she has loved little much is forgiven her."

But in relation to question of honor, "dealing straight" as she put it, / Cis was acutely sensitive. She told herself that it would be too much / to expect of anyone not to give her betrothed information which she / possessed and which would not go farther, which would, without harm to / another, greatly benefit him. The fact which she could not argue down / as it faced her frowningly, was that Mr. Lucas had made no exception / to his prohibition against disclosing the secret which her position / necessitated her knowing, that she had given her pledge to keep / it -- and had broken it! For the sake of Rod, only, of course, to whom / she owed her best help, but she had broken it!