| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: the nursery. In the scant time allotted them, the two sat, and
visibly wondered what to say.
Strefford, on entering, had glanced about the dreary room, with
its piano laden with tattered music, the children's toys
littering the lame sofa, the bunches of dyed grass and impaled
butterflies flanking the cast-bronze clock. Then he had turned
to Susy and asked simply: "Why on earth are you here?"
She had not tried to explain; from the first, she had understood
the impossibility of doing so. And she would not betray her
secret longing to return to Nick, now that she knew that Nick
had taken definite steps for his release. In dread lest
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: placed it in my buttonhole, "because one can not always carry out
agreements the day they are signed."
"And when shall I see you again?" I said, clasping her in my
arms.
"When this camellia changes colour."
"When will it change colour?"
"To-morrow night between eleven and twelve. Are you satisfied?"
"Need you ask me?"
"Not a word of this either to your friend or to Prudence, or to
anybody whatever."
"I promise."
Camille |
