I wish you could have seen her as I first remember her,
tall, slender, graceful, eyes of dark blue -- a pearl, a flower amongst women.
I have been told that even when very young, her wisdom and
intelligence were remarkable. I always think of her in those earliest days of
my memory as queenly in her dignity and loveliness, full of consideration for
everybody, gentle, of a marvelous unselfishness, no action of hers ever failed
to show the loving-kindness of her pure heart; her very presence seemed to make
an atmosphere of love and happiness wherever she came, enfolding all comers in
the fragrance of gentle courtesy.
- Bahiyyih Khanum (Quoted by Lady Blomfield in
‘The Chosen Highway’)
