Baillie doubted of his derangement; but, as he did not reckon his own opinion infallible, he wished her to take precautions as if her husband were so.

He recommended her going to the country, but to give him no suspicion of her intentions of remaining there, and, for a short time, to show no coldness in her letters, till she could better ascertain his state.

She went, regretting, as she told me, to wear any semblance but the truth.

A short time disclosed the story to the world.
He acted the part of a man driven to despair by her inflexible resentment and by the arts of a governess (once a servant in the family) who hated him.

"I will give you," proceeds Lady Anne, "a few paragraphs transcribed from one of Lady Byron's own letters to me.