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As there are fifteen minutes between tides when the ocean lies quiet at / neither ebb nor flow, so the world seems to rest between Christmas and / the New Year; preparations for holidays over, active work not resumed.
Cis had decided to continue as Mr. Lucas' secretary, at least until / spring. Affairs in which he was interested had taken on sudden activity / in ways and directions which would have made it hard for him to begin a / new secretary at that time; entire fidelity to him and complete silence / as to what had to transpire to his secretary were especially required / now in her who filled that office. Cis knew, in spite of her lapse / for Rod's sake, that her successor might easily bungle things, as she / never would, or intentionally talk, to her employer's detriment. In / view of Mr. Lucas' proved interest in her, Cis felt in honor bound to / stand by for the present, if she could do so. Yet there was upon her a / restlessness of mind that impelled her to change, any change. "It was / growing pains," Miss Braithwaite told her, and Cis knew that she was / right. She was growing, and the expansion of her powers called to her / to give them scope.