Ruano's tears purified her heart and set it afire — which made her completely Baba's forever.
In the evening of 9 July 1933, Quentin, Margaret, Mabel and Delia staged a skit which Baba had asked them to prepare while he was away in Rome.
The theme of the performance was what Baba had often repeated to them: "If you find me a perfect boy, I will break my silence."
They had, therefore, created a skit in which all of them were old people now and such a boy had finally been found (Quentin, dressed in a feathered hat, a coat and shorts), but a cable from Baba was received (delivered by Kaka, dressed as a mailman), saying everything was postponed ("owing to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius")! This caused them to faint and, as they did so, pledge: "We still have faith!" After the skit, Margaret and Quentin danced with an umbrella (in a take-off of Meredith and Margaret Starr), and Mabel, Anita and Delia did an imitation of an African chieftain and his tribe. Baba was highly amused.
One afternoon as they were sitting with Baba outside on the cliffs, talk of past lifetimes came up. Minta naïvely claimed to have been Lord Krishna's consort — Radha. Norina thought that she herself had been Mary, the mother of Jesus. Others claimed various lives, but Baba did not indicate who they once were.
Referring to this occasion, Margaret once recalled: "Fortunately, no one claimed to be Cleopatra that day, thank goodness!" She actually thought the whole thing was ridiculous and joked, "Baba, I do not want anything — from any past. What I want in the present is to be your fiancée. I would like to be your fiancée, but I will never ask for marriage. I will remain your fiancée forever!"
Baba was delighted and gestured that what she said was very good. Margaret was deeply touched when, a few days later, Baba took an Egyptian scarab ring out of his pocket and slipped it on her finger. She never took it off, and for years afterward would sign her letters to Baba, "Thomas' fiancée." (Thomas was the little boy whom Baba pretended to be, who had come to her for dance lessons the previous year in Santa Margherita.)
Monday, 10 July 1933 was the eighth anniversary of Meher Baba's silence. For the Westerners, it was a day of great experience in the ways of the Master's work and powers.