| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: withdraw his countenance, the shadows lengthened, the
aromatic airs awoke, and an indescribable but happy change
announced the coming of the night.
The hours of evening, when we were once curtained in the
friendly dark, sped lightly. Even as with the crickets,
night brought to us a certain spirit of rejoicing. It was
good to taste the air; good to mark the dawning of the stars,
as they increased their glittering company; good, too, to
gather stones, and send them crashing down the chute, a wave
of light. It seemed, in some way, the reward and the
fulfilment of the day. So it is when men dwell in the open
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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 The Pupil by Henry James: to Morgan: "Why on earth didn't you relieve me? Why didn't you
answer my letter?"
Mrs. Moreen declared that when she wrote he was very bad, and
Pemberton learned at the same time from the boy that he had
answered every letter he had received. This led to the clear
inference that Pemberton's note had been kept from him so that the
game practised should not be interfered with. Mrs. Moreen was
prepared to see the fact exposed, as Pemberton saw the moment he
faced her that she was prepared for a good many other things. She
was prepared above all to maintain that she had acted from a sense
of duty, that she was enchanted she had got him over, whatever they
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