| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: keeping it as a sort of screen between herself and these two
people,--the counterfeits, they seemed, of her lover and her
sister. If the roof in falling to crush them had crushed her
also, she could scarcely have seemed more rigid or more
powerless. It passed, and the next moment she was on her feet
again, capable of action.
"She must be taken," she said very clearly, but in a lower tone
than usual, "to my chamber." Then pointing to the candles, she
said, more huskily, "We must not be seen. Put them out." Every
syllable seemed to exhaust her. But as Philip obeyed her
words, he saw her move suddenly and stand by Emilia's side.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: him strangely; but he was determined that this should not weaken his
resolution to make some kind of stand against her; to get at the truth
about her. He let her make her own disposition of clothes and busied
himself with the plates.
"I've got a piece of news for you, Katharine," he said directly they
sat down to table; "I shan't get my holiday in April. We shall have to
put off our marriage."
He rapped the words out with a certain degree of briskness. Katharine
started a little, as if the announcement disturbed her thoughts.
"That won't make any difference, will it? I mean the lease isn't
signed," she replied. "But why? What has happened?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: not dining out between January and April. The two
chatted together for nearly twenty minutes; then the
Countess rose and, walking alone across the wide
drawing-room, sat down at Newland Archer's side.
It was not the custom in New York drawing-rooms
for a lady to get up and walk away from one gentleman
in order to seek the company of another. Etiquette
required that she should wait, immovable as an idol,
while the men who wished to converse with her succeeded
each other at her side. But the Countess was
apparently unaware of having broken any rule; she sat
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