| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: hesitated at the window of a shipping-office in Cockspur Street
and at the Army and Navy Stores, but decided that perhaps there
would be some special and customary hour, and that it would be
better for her to find this out before she made her attempt. And,
besides, she didn't just immediately want to make her attempt.
She fell into a pleasant dream of positions and work. Behind
every one of these myriad fronts she passed there must be a
career or careers. Her ideas of women's employment and a modern
woman's pose in life were based largely on the figure of Vivie
Warren in Mrs. Warren's Profession. She had seen Mrs. Warren's
Profession furtively with Hetty Widgett from the gallery of a
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: single chess-board and a single pack of cards. Sometimes as many as
twenty of us would be playing dominoes for love. Feats of dexterity,
puzzles for the intelligence, some arithmetical, some of the same
order as the old problem of the fox and goose and cabbage, were
always welcome; and the latter, I observed, more popular as well as
more conspicuously well done than the former. We had a regular daily
competition to guess the vessel's progress; and twelve o'clock, when
the result was published in the wheel-house, came to be a moment of
considerable interest. But the interest was unmixed. Not a bet was
laid upon our guesses. From the Clyde to Sandy Hook I never heard a
wager offered or taken. We had, besides, romps in plenty. Puss in
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