of the room say, "Harry!" There was Harry Kenmore, who had come unannounced, had simply gotten in the darshan line and was proceeding through the hall.

Baba said, "Harry, what are you doing here?"

"I have come to see my dear Pop."

And Baba said, "Your Pop is very happy to see His dear son."

Then there were three of us sitting against the wall. At this point, the Indians  were becoming very curious about these Westerners sitting there, so Baba decided to introduce us. He said, "This is Harry Kenmore from New York and Fred Winterfeldt from New York, and Ann Conlon from the United States," (although I was from New York, too). Then He said, "She is a blessed woman, otherwise, why would she have come when she had never seen Me? Her love brought her and that love is My gift to her." Baba confirmed what I felt in the Lagoon Cabin years before: Any love I had was His gift. The whole week was like that — Baba confirming these little things for me. I spent that week just staring at Him; I was totally focused on Him.

One morning, I got into a very heavy fight with Harry Kenmore in the dining room of the Napier Hotel. Harry was yelling at me for getting up early and not calling him for breakfast. We had this fight with poor Fred sitting looking very embarrassed. Later in the day when we all went to see Baba we got out of Meherjee's car in such a position that Harry, who was blind, reached for somebody's arm and he got mine. So we walked into Baba together. Baba looked at Harry, who couldn't see this and He looked at me and He laughed. Here we had had this knock-down, drag-out fight and had come to Baba arm-in-arm.

Wherever Baba was, He would always meet with the men mandali in the mornings. There was a Mandali Hall in Guruprasad. Any male guests who would come would attend these meetings. When Fred and Harry were there, Baba had Arnavaz take me around Poona to meet Eruch's family and meet the Baba lovers who were living there, or who were visiting. But when that last day came, Baba sent word that I was to come to Guruprasad with Fred and Harry.

I went in to Mandali Hall and Baba said, "Now, there are no women allowed at these meetings. You're not supposed to be here, but you stay for five minutes, and then you go to Mehera and Mani." So I sat down and Harry started telling jokes to Baba. Baba stopped him and asked, "Do you think you ought to tell that joke? Ann is here." It was one of Harry’s innocuous jokes and he said, "It's alright, Baba, she's over 25." A few minutes went by and Baba turned to me and said, "Now, you really have to go, you're not supposed to be here." So I got up and started out the door, and He said, "You can come back for another five minutes." So I went back and I sat down for another five minutes. A little while later, He said, "Now, you really have to go." I got up and I started out. He stopped me again — there was a real twinkle in His eye — and He said, "When I come back in 700 years, you make sure you come back as a man so you can attend these exclusive meetings." He was laughing, everybody in the room was laughing, and I laughed. I went through the door and it suddenly occurred to me, "I don't know how Baba works. I don't know if He's kidding or not." Later in the day, I found Francis Brabazon and I asked, "Francis, was Baba joking? And if He wasn't, how do I make sure about that?"

He said, "Baba will often tell you something in a light manner; what He