Bitterly did Arachne now repent of her folly; and in her despair she bound a rope about her neck, and hung herself. […] Her father had answered her prayer by changing her into a laurel tree. […] In her pride she called aloud to Latona, and taunted her because her offspring numbered but two. […] She therefore bade her son Cupid slay her. […] Psyche related her desperate attempt at suicide, her miraculous preservation from certain death, her aerial journey, her entrance into the enchanted palace, her love for her mysterious nightly visitor, — all, in short, that had happened since she had left her father’s home.