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Daphne
Another stock pastoral name — Ovid's nymph, pursued by Apollo, became a byword for a pretty ingenue in sentimental fiction; Austen's Daphne is the one character who seems to know the play's secret, and whispers it rather than tell it.
person
Another stock pastoral name — Ovid's nymph, pursued by Apollo, became a byword for a pretty ingenue in sentimental fiction; Austen's Daphne is the one character who seems to know the play's secret, and whispers it rather than tell it.