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30 aright. Her faith in God was firm; her reliance on Him was per- fect. She must have drawn comfort from the reflection that He, Whose mercy and grace had led her so far, would not leave her in doubt and perplexity at this stage. She had no one else to turn to. She must come to her own decision, with God’s help. In the early afternoon she set out on the quest to which she attached the highest importance and to which she was urged on by her eager soul. I accompanied her. She identified the house as the one she had seen in her dream and ascending to the first floor presented herself to Hazrat Ummul Momineen and begged her to arrange that she might have a glimpse of her august husband. The request was conveyed to him and he sent back word that he would be passing through shortly and would stop for a few minutes on his way to the adjacent mosque for participation in the Prayer Service. Presently he arrived and sat down next to Hazrat Ummul Momi neen, a few feet from where and I were seated. The moment she beheld him her face lit up and with a wistful smile she submitted, ‘Sir, I would make the covenant’, to which he responded graciously, ‘Repeat after me what I say. ’ He then pronounced phrase by phrase the terms of the covenant and she repeated them after him. At the end he made a silent supplication, in which the ladies of the family, , and I joined, and he left. I realised later, as the result of my own observation, that this had been most unusual on his part, the more so as the novice was a woman whose husband was not a member of the Movement. No question had been asked on either side, not a single word was exchanged apart from the prescribed formula of the pledge.