I will say no more.
Judge for yourself about going or staying.

I wish you to consider yourself, if you could be wise enough to do that, for the first time in your life.
'Thine, 'A.

I.B.' Addressed on the cover, 'To The Hon.

Mrs.Leigh.' This letter not being dated, we have no clue but what we obtain from its own internal evidence.

It certainly is not written in Lady Byron's usual clear and elegant style; and is, in this respect, in striking contrast to all her letters that I have ever seen.
But the notes written by a young woman under such peculiar and distressing circumstances must not be judged by the standard of calmer hours.
Subsequently to this letter, and during that stormy, irrational period when Lord Byron's conduct became daily more and more unaccountable, may have come that startling scene in which Lord Byron took every pains to convince his wife of improper relations subsisting between himself and his sister.
What an utter desolation this must have been to the wife, tearing from her the last hold of friendship, and the last refuge to which she had clung in her sorrows, may easily be conceived.
In this crisis, it appears that the sister convinced Lady Byron that the whole was to be attributed to insanity.