Cupid and Psyche, Part IV: Somebody Get Me Some Wool

Previously: Part I, marrying Amelia Bedelia. Part II, it was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well. Part III, Aphrodite gets out of the tub at last.

[From Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: Adlington version, Bulfinch version.]

Psyche sat amidst a puzzlement of grain, nursing a headache; these were the thanks for making Aphrodite a grandmother befor…