The circumstances under which this brief story was written are affecting.
Lord Byron was dead.

The whole account between him and her was closed for ever in this world.

Moore's 'Life' had been prepared, containing simply and solely Lord Byron's own version of their story.

Moore sent this version to Lady Byron, and requested to know if she had any remarks to make upon it.

In reply, she sent a brief statement to him,--the first and only one that had come from her during all the years of the separation, and which appears to have mainly for its object the exculpation of her father and mother from the charge, made by the poet, of being the instigators of the separation.
In this letter, she says, with regard to their separation,-- 'The facts are, I left London for Kirkby Mallory, the residence of my father and mother, on the 15th of January, 1816.