"So it is--as currency; but the state could not refuse to allow skillful workers in the precious metals to exercise their skill in ornaments, and so there comes into the market not only state manufacture of gold and silver, but also for some years past the products of individual enterprise. Don't you remember the beautiful necklace Neaera wears? Lydia, too; even Iréné wears a heavy bracelet of solid gold. "And do you mean to say that Campbell hoards ornaments?" "My dear fellow, there is nothing unusual in hoarding ornaments; most of the wealth of the Rajahs at the time of the conquest of India consisted of ornaments and precious stones; and later, the hoarding of ornaments by the natives constituted one of the financial difficulties with which the English Government had to contend. Then, too, a miser is not actuated by intelligence; he is the slave of an instinct--the hoarding instinct. He must hoard something, and as there is no gold coin to hoard, Campbell hoards gold ornaments." We found that both Ann and Anna had left the tea-room, so we ventured to the inhospitable door of their apartment. Anna opened it to us and ushered us into a room where her father was sitting. He was a small man with an intelligent face, but the hair grew on his head in a manner that was characteristic; some people would have called him bald, but he was not bald; the hair was extremely thin, so thin that it gave his scalp the appearance of not being perfectly clean. He greeted us courteously and inquiringly, as though we could not have called upon him except for some definite purpose. So Ariston at once suggested that he and his family should join us that evening at Theodore's. "We should be delighted," said he. "But we are expecting our boy this evening--Harmes." Harmes was the young man who had been convicted of using violence with Neaera and had been sent to the Penal Colony. "You will want to spend your first evening with Harmes _en famille_," said Ariston, "so let us say to-morrow." Campbell consulted his wife, and accepted. "When does Harmes arrive?" asked Ariston. "We are expecting him every moment," answered Campbell. "To-morrow, then, at Theodore's at seven," said Ariston, and we left. The absence of all shame as to the imprisonment of Harmes struck me as remarkable, but Ariston soon set me straight.