| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Please come," said Sara Lee in a small voice.
The other gentlemen bowed profoundly. Sara Lee, rather at a loss, gave
them a friendly smile that included them all. And then she and Henri
were walking up the stairs and to the entrance, Henri's tall figure the
target for many women's eyes. He, however, saw no one but Sara Lee.
Henri, too, called a taxicab. Every one in London seemed to ride in
taxis. And he bent over her hand, once she was in the car, but he did
not kiss it.
"It is very kind of you, what you are doing," he said. "But, then, you
Americans are all kind. And wonderful."
Back at Morley's Hotel Sara Lee had a short conversation with Harvey's
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: inclination to it was removed, as entirely as if I had been a
sucking child; nor did the temptation return to this day." Mr.
Webster's words on the same subject are these: "One thing I have
heard the colonel frequently say, that he was much addicted to
impurity before his acquaintance with religion; but that, so soon
as he was enlightened from above, he felt the power of the Holy
Ghost changing his nature so wonderfully that his sanctification
in this respect seemed more remarkable than in any other."[149]
[149] Doddridge's Life of Colonel James Gardiner, London
Religious Tract Society, pp. 23-32.
Such rapid abolition of ancient impulses and propensities reminds
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