It always gave her a certain amount of quaint amusement to envy the ladies in their carriages and motor-cars.

The envy was not malicious.

You would have found no socialistic tendencies in her.

In her mind, utterly untutored in the sense of logic, she found birth to be a full and sufficient reason for possession.

But there was always alive in her consciousness the orderly desire to also be a possessor herself.