Mia 012

Lord Lentilux walked to his hotel around the corner and it took him just a few minutes to return to the park. To his delight, the young lady was still there, waiting for him.

"That was fast, Lord Lentilux. There is nothing wrong with your condition"

"Thank you, Mia. Well, I made a quick selection from the glasses and they are in this pizza box"

"That's a handy way to travel with lots of glasses. May I ask, how many of these boxes did you bring with you to Paris?"

"If my memory serves me correctly, there are five boxes. Four of them fit exactly in a small suitcase and I carried the fifth box in my big rucksack for mountain climbing"

Lord Lentilux opened the pizza box and showed Mia its contents. There were about thirty glasses.

"Now that's some collection, My Lord.... They are beautiful, really beautiful. I can't wait to try them on. But please explain to me first why you call them magic glasses"

"Well, it's actually you who will make the magic work. It goes like this. When you put a pair on your nose, you will notice that your eyes start adapting to the lenses. It takes no more than ten seconds. So the glasses give you perfect eyesight"

"That's impossible. A bit frightening as well. Your glasses will make me shortsighted just like all my old school friends. I don't want to become dependent on glasses"

"Not to worry, Mia. The magic comes in two parts and I was only halfway the story. As soon as you remove the glasses, your eyesight will return to normal within ten seconds"

"So there is a way into your magic experiment and a way out as well? That changes the matter. But can you give me 100% guarantee?"

"Indeed I can. At least seventy people have tested my magic glasses and none of them had a change in eyesight afterwards. Not for the better and not for the worse"

"That is reassuring information. Can I try one of the orange glasses?"

"Of course you can. Be my guest"

The young lady took the glasses out of the box and she looked at the lenses.

"These don't look much stronger than my own glasses, is that right?"

"I have not had the opportunity to check the lenses in your glasses but they can't be stronger than minus one. The lenses in this orange pair are minus two"

"Alright, so I will not be as blind as a bat"

The young lady took off her own glasses and put them in the pocket of her jacket. Then she put the orange glasses on. To her amazement, everything went as predicted.

"This is fascinating, really fascinating. These glasses give me perfect eyesight. It did not even take ten seconds. So this is what shortsighted people see through their glasses"

"May I ask, did you feel anything unusual in your eyes during the adaptation?"

"Not really. Perhaps a slight ticklishness, that's all. How do I look in these orange glasses?"

"Great, Mia, you look beautiful in them. Here is a hand mirror so you can check your looks"