| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: of his inner pocket, he flung down in the corner and began to read.
"Our client moreover is positive...We are inclined to reconsider...in the
event of--" Ah, that was better. William pressed back his flattened hair
and stretched his legs across the carriage floor. The familiar dull
gnawing in his breast quietened down. "With regard to our decision--" He
took out a blue pencil and scored a paragraph slowly.
Two men came in, stepped across him, and made for the farther corner. A
young fellow swung his golf clubs into the rack and sat down opposite. The
train gave a gentle lurch, they were off. William glanced up and saw the
hot, bright station slipping away. A red-faced girl raced along by the
carriages, there was something strained and almost desperate in the way she
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: a better guide than his footsteps."
Lady Bothwell rose and went to the window, the tears gushing from
her eyes.
"And this heartless raillery," she said, "is all the
consideration that is to be given to our apprehensions of a
quarrel which may bring on the most terrible consequences? Good
God! of what can men's hearts be made, who can thus dally with
the agony of others?"
Sir Philip Forester was moved; he laid aside the mocking tone in
which he had hitherto spoken.
"Dear Lady Bothwell," he said, taking her reluctant hand, "we are
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