Well, he, with his music, was the cause of all.
"At the trial the affair was so represented that everything seemed attributable to jealousy.

It is false,--that is, not quite false, but there was something else.

The verdict was rendered that I was a deceived husband, that I had killed in defence of my sullied honor (that is the way they put it in their language), and thus I was acquitted.

I tried to explain the affair from my own point of view, but they concluded that I simply wanted to rehabilitate the memory of my wife.

Her relations with the musician, whatever they may have been, are now of no importance to me or to her.