For in very deed never have I seen the face of my husband, nor know I at all what manner of man he is.

Always he frights me diligently from the sight of him, threatening some great evil should I too curiously look upon his face.
Do ye, if ye can help your sister in her great peril, stand by her now." [74] Her sisters answered her, "The way of safety we have well considered, and will teach thee.

Take a sharp knife, and hide it in that part of the couch where thou art wont to lie: take also a lamp filled with oil, and set it Privily behind the curtain.

And when he shall have drawn up his coils into the accustomed place, and thou hearest him breathe in sleep, slip then from his side and discover the lamp, and, knife in hand, put forth thy strength, and strike off the serpent's head." And so they departed in haste.
And Psyche left alone (alone but for the furies which beset her) is tossed up and down in her distress, like a wave of the sea; and though her will is firm, yet, in the moment of putting hand to the deed, she falters, and is torn asunder by various apprehension of the great calamity upon her.

She hastens and anon delays, now full of distrust, and now of angry courage: under one bodily form she loathes the monster and loves the bridegroom.