blew-then

Updated: May 17, 2025

The couple bore up bravely until the whistle blew-then, clasping each other in an almost brutal embrace, they parted, he to jump into the moving train mid the shouts of well-wishers, and she, her shoulders shaking with emotion, to return to her empty home. Four months later, almost to a day, I again put my head out of the car window as we stopped at Changis.

Frances Wilson Huard - My Home in the Field of Honor