[It gives Dorian a pause.] A riddle of age? I should think that if you've found some trick of eternal youth, you are most remiss in failing to share it with others. I would give anything in the world to stay as young as beautiful as I am in this moment—no, to stay young as I was a few hours ago. If the Royal Society has a way to accomplish such a thing, I can imagine no reason it should deny the rest of us the gift.