The Birth of Venus

And why is that not possible?It is quite true." "Do you mean your hair is turning from grey to black instead of fromblack to grey?" "Precisely." "But surely that's a scientific impossibility!" "Not at all." "But that's very extraordinary.It seems against nature." "As usual，Hastings，you have the beautiful and unsuspicious mind.Yearsdo not change that in you!You perceive a fact and mention the solution of itin the same breath without noticing that you are doing so!"

I stared at him，puzzled. Without a word he walked into his bedroom and returned with a bottle inhis hand which he handed to me. I took it，for the moment uncomprehending. It bore the words: Revivit-To bring back the natural tone of the hair.