It was even represented to me that he was in danger of destroying himself.
'With the concurrence of his family, I had consulted Dr.Baillie as a friend (Jan.

8) respecting the supposed malady.

On acquainting him with the state of the case, and with Lord Byron's desire that I should leave London, Dr.Baillie thought that my absence might be advisable as an experiment, assuming the fact of mental derangement; for Dr.Baillie, not having had access to Lord Byron, could not pronounce a positive opinion on that point.

He enjoined that, in correspondence with Lord Byron, I should avoid all but light and soothing topics.

Under these impressions, I left London, determined to follow the advice given by Dr.Baillie.
Whatever might have been the conduct of Lord Byron toward me from the time of my marriage, yet, supposing him to be in a state of mental alienation, it was not for me, nor for any person of common humanity, to manifest at that moment a sense of injury.' Nothing more than this letter from Lady Byron is necessary to substantiate the fact, that she did not leave her husband, but was driven from him,--driven from him that he might give himself up to the guilty infatuation that was consuming him, without being tortured by her imploring face, and by the silent power of her presence and her prayers.
For a long time before this, she had seen little of him.