| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: - you heard me - that everybody's to keep under cover now. But
they think they've got a soft thing, and they say they're goin' to
it. I've got to put a crimp in it, and you've got to help me.
Y'understand, Nan?"
"Yes," she said mechanically.
Her mind was working swiftly. The night, after all, perhaps, was
not to be so much of a failure! To get into intimate touch with
all the members of the clique was equally one of her objects, and,
failing Danglar himself to-night, here was an "open sesame" to the
re-treat of two of the others. She would never have a better chance,
or one in which risk and danger, under the chaperonage, as it were,
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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 Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: how could they have got to know men well enough to be more than strangers?
One read of people having adventures, being followed, and so on. But
nobody had ever followed Constantia and her. Oh yes, there had been one
year at Eastbourne a mysterious man at their boarding-house who had put a
note on the jug of hot water outside their bedroom door! But by the time
Connie had found it the steam had made the writing too faint to read; they
couldn't even make out to which of them it was addressed. And he had left
next day. And that was all. The rest had been looking after father, and
at the same time keeping out of father's way. But now? But now? The
thieving sun touched Josephine gently. She lifted her face. She was drawn
over to the window by gentle beams...
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