She knew that they would all be equal in heaven, and that was enough for her.

Meanwhile, she found lords and ladies on earth, and seeing no open sin in the fact of their being richer and more powerful than she was, she supposed that God had put them where they were; and she accepted them simply as facts of His kingdom.

Of course they had their duties, as every one has: but what they were she did not know, or care to know.

To their own master they stood or fell; her business was with her own duties, and with her own class, whose good and evil she understood by practical experience.

So when a live lord made his appearance in her school, she looked at him with vague wonder and admiration, as a being out of some other planet, for whom she had no gauge or measure: she only believed that he had vast powers of doing good unknown to her; and was delighted by seeing him condescend to play with her children.