Yet we have Lady Anne Barnard's testimony, that, at this time, she was so far from wishing to injure him, that all her communications were guarded by cautious secrecy.

At this time, also, she had a strong party in England, to whom she could have appealed.

Again: when 'Don Juan' was first printed, it excited a violent re-action against Lord Byron.

Had his wife chosen then to accuse him, and display the evidence she had shown to her counsel, there is little doubt that all the world would have stood with her; but she did not.

After his death, when she spoke at last, there seems little doubt from the strength of Dr.
Lushington's language, that Lady Byron had a very strong case, and that, had she been willing, her counsel could have told much more than he did.
She might then have told her whole story, and been believed.