itself up to her, and a dead face, like that of her father,
would appear, and a voice would issue from the dead man's mouth,
begging for the other piece of money, that he might pay for his
passage, and get released from the doom of floating for ever in
the grim flood of Styx. But still she was to keep silence, and
to let the dead man cry out in vain; for all these, the voice
told her, were snares prepared by Aphrodite, to make her let go
the money, and to let fall the pieces of bread. Then, at the
gate of the palace of Persephone she would meet the great
three-headed dog, Kerberos, who keeps watch there for ever, and
to him, to quiet his terrible barking, she must give one piece
of the bread, and pass on, still never speaking. So Kerberos
would allow her to pass; but still another danger would await
her. Persephone would greet her kindly, and ask her to sit upon
soft cushions, and to eat of a fine banquet. But she must refuse
both offers--sitting only on the ground, and eating only of the
bread of mortals, or else she must remain for ever in the gloomy
regions below the earth. Psyche listened to this counsel, and
obeyed it. Everything happened as the voice had foretold. She
saw the old man with the overladen ass, she permitted Charon to
take the piece of money from her lips, she stopped her ears
against the cry of the dead man floating in the black river, she
gave the honey bread to Kerberos, and she refused the soft
cushions and the banquet offered to her by the queen of the
infernal regions. Then Persephone gave her the precious beauty
demanded by Aphrodite, and shut it up in the box, and Psyche
came safely back into the light of day, giving to Kerberos, the
three-headed dog, the remaining piece of honey bread, and to
Charon the remaining piece of money. But now she fell into a
great danger. The voice in the tower had warned her not to look