Sentence:  Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord , and when the <WSD>conversation</WSD> came to an end , Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment , to his bathroom , where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.