| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: worst came to the worst, what could they do? They could go only so
far, and then they would have to quit.
It would be better, however, if they did not see Melis. Much
better; there was no use involving a simple situation. And Bev
could be kept out of it altogether, until it was over. Ashamed of
his panic he went back to the theater, got a railway schedule and
looked up trains. He should have done it long before, he recognized,
have gone to Bassett in the spring. But how could he have known
then that Bassett was going to make a life-work of the case?
He had only one uncertainty. Suppose that Bassett had learned about
Clifton Hines?
The Breaking Point |
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 Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: her.
I thought it no fit place for me, and fled.
CHAPTER XI - THE WOOD BY SILVERMILLS
I LOST no time, but down through the valley and by Stockbridge and
Silvermills as hard as I could stave. It was Alan's tryst to be every
night between twelve and two "in a bit scrog of wood by east of
Silvermills and by south the south mill-lade." This I found easy
enough, where it grew on a steep brae, with the mill-lade flowing swift
and deep along the foot of it; and here I began to walk slower and to
reflect more reasonably on my employment. I saw I had made but a
fool's bargain with Catriona. It was not to be supposed that Neil was
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