The Cable by Marion Ames Taggart

During the remnant of that night left for sleep Cis slept deeply, too / tired in mind and body to be wakeful.

Her hours at the telephone exchange were elastic; she had undertaken / the organization work only on a provisory basis, unwillingly, with the / understanding that it might continue in her hands but a short time. She / called up her own department in the morning and said that she would not / go down until after lunch. She knew that Rodney would come to see her, / probably in the forenoon. She knew that she must not refuse to see him. / He had done right because she had asked it of him; the least that she / could do was to repay that debt by bidding him good-bye, this time, she / was sure, for all the rest of her life. She dreaded the interview, yet / dreaded it less than she had expected to. Her experience with Rodney / had been marked by extremes of emotion, even up to the previous night / when, by a strange combination of circumstances, she and he had watched / his wife die while they responded to the prayers for mercy upon her. / Now Cis stood upon the plane of quiet. There remained but to drop the / curtain upon this drama in her life, with a Godspeed for poor Rodney.