…we went to the Holy Household to visit the Holy Leaves. I shall never forget that little procession as they entered the room with the dignity of queens, led by the Greatest Holy Leaf. She was all in white: the Greatest Holy Leaf, the daughter of the Blessed Perfection. Her face had the look of one who had passed through crucifixion and was resurrected in another world. In it shone great blue eyes, eyes that had looked upon many sorrows and now were ineffably tender… Behind her came Túbá Khánum and Munavvar Khánum (two of the daughters of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Munirih Khanum)...
Juliet Thompson (‘The Diary of Juliet Thompson)