| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: rectory garden. That is barred in the future. Please treat my
mother with as much respect as you treat your own.
FRANK. My dear Viv: she wouldnt appreciate it: the two cases
require different treatment. But what on earth has happened to
you? Last night we were perfectly agreed as to your mother and
her set. This morning I find you attitudinizing sentimentally
with your arm around your parent's waist.
VIVIE [flushing] Attitudinizing!
FRANK. That was how it struck me. First time I ever saw you do
a second-rate thing.
VIVIE [controlling herself] Yes, Frank: there has been a change:
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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 Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: bustle was the affair of a moment, but it startled me from the
abstraction into which I had fallen like a summons. I sat
briskly up, and as I did so, my eyes rested on the figure of a
lady in a brown jacket and carrying a paint-box. By her side
walked a fellow some years older than myself, with an easel
under his arm; and alike by their course and cargo I might
judge they were bound for the gallery, where the lady was,
doubtless, engaged upon some copying. You can imagine my
surprise when I recognized in her the heroine of my adventure.
To put the matter beyond question, our eyes met, and she,
seeing herself remembered and recalling the trim in which I
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