“the responsibility of attending to the multitudinous details arising out of His [‘Abdu’l-Baha’s] protracted absence from the Holy Land”

And when, in pursuance of God’s inscrutable Wisdom, the ban on ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s confinement was lifted and the Plan which He, in the darkest hours of His confinement, had conceived materialized, He with unhesitating confidence, invested His trusted and honoured sister with the responsibility of attending to the multitudinous details arising out of His protracted absence from the Holy Land. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (From a letter dated 17 July 1932; ‘The Baha’i World 1932-1934)