Six-year-old Sadie O'Malley has gained her imperfect ideas of Heaven from the teachings of a settlement worker, and when she sees a handsome limousine in front of the settlement laundry, she thinks It must be the bus to the promised land, and conceals herself in a hamper inside the car. She is whisked away to the home of Mrs. Riche and is thoroughly enjoying herself when that philanthropist by proxy returns. Mrs. Riche dislikes unfashionable dogs even more than slum children, so Sadie and George Washington Square decide that it really isn't heaven, for they didn't like dogs.