If I had known when I went to sleep that night just how long my nap would be, I should still have thought that the gold was a safe provision for my needs in any country or any century, however distant.

That a time would ever come when it would lose its purchasing power, I should have considered the wildest of fancies.

Nevertheless, here I wake up to find myself among a people of whom a cartload of gold will not procure a loaf of bread." As might be expected, I did not succeed in impressing Edith that there was anything remarkable in this fact.

"Why in the world should it ?" she merely asked..