The ribaldry and the obscenity and the insults with which he strove to make her ridiculous in the world fell at her pitying feet unheeded.
When he broke away from all this unworthy life to devote himself to a manly enterprise for the redemption of Greece, she thought that she saw the beginning of an answer to her prayers.

Even although one of his latest acts concerning her was to repeat to Lady Blessington the false accusation which made Lady Byron the author of all his errors, she still had hopes from the one step taken in the right direction.
In the midst of these hopes came the news of his sudden death.

On his death-bed, it is well-known that he called his confidential English servant to him, and said to him, 'Go to my sister; tell her--Go to Lady Byron,--you will see her,--and say'-- Here followed twenty minutes of indistinct mutterings, in which the names of his wife, daughter, and sister, frequently occurred.

He then said, 'Now I have told you all.' 'My lord,' replied Fletcher, 'I have not understood a word your lordship has been saying.' 'Not understand me!' exclaimed Lord Byron with a look of the utmost distress: 'what a pity! Then it is too late,--all is over!' He afterwards, says Moore, tried to utter a few words, of which none were intelligible except 'My sister--my child.' When Fletcher returned to London, Lady Byron sent for him, and walked the room in convulsive struggles to repress her tears and sobs, while she over and over again strove to elicit something from him which should enlighten her upon what that last message had been; but in vain: the gates of eternity were shut in her face, and not a word had passed to tell her if he had repented.
For all that, Lady Byron never doubted his salvation.

Ever before her, during the few remaining years of her widowhood, was the image of her husband, purified and ennobled, with the shadows of earth for ever dissipated, the stains of sin for ever removed; 'the angel in him,' as she expressed it, 'made perfect, according to its divine ideal.' Never has more divine strength of faith and love existed in woman.