Many years after, however, a traveller lying under the trees heard them whispering to each other.
He lay very still and soon learned that in them Philemon and Baucis still lived, happy and contented, and protected by Zeus from all harm.
DAPHNE.
APHNE was the daughter of the River Peneus.
She was a beautiful child and her father loved her more than anything else in the world.
Her home was in a cave which he had cut for her in a great white cliff.