Sax Rohmer

“ All will see you, and, when you speak, all will hear you. No woman since humanity was born has known such a moment. Millions upon whom your eyes can never rest, whom you can never know, to-day will see you, will hear your voice; and you and I shall listen to all the peoples of the earth hailing the first Emperor and Empress of the World. Are you ready?"
"I am ready," Jasmine repeated. ”

“ Awhile longer they talked; and when at last Jasmine hung up the receiver she literally danced to her room. Theories touching the destruction of masculine control and the triumph of feminism had been brushed aside at the sound of a man's voice as thistledown is swept by the breeze.
She was radiantly happy. No longer did she regard the county of Surrey as a spot forgotten by the gods. Twilight was painting shadows in the quaint nooks and rambling corridors of Low Ketley, and twilight Jasmine always associated with melancholy. ”

“ Low Ketley was a romantic old house full of mysteries, but all of them of a delightful kind. She was sure that she could live here for ever. She crossed to her open window and looked out toward the tree-topped mound. ”