I then said, 'but of course she never loved Lord Byron, or she would not have left him.' The lady answered, 'I can show you with what feelings she left him by relating this story;' and then followed the anecdote.
Subsequently, she also related to me the other story of the parting-scene between Lord and Lady Byron.

In regard to these two incidents, my recollection is clear.
It will be observed by the reader that Lady Byron's conversation with me was simply for consultation on one point, and that point whether she herself should publish the story before her death.

It was not, therefore, a complete history of all the events in their order, but specimens of a few incidents and facts.

Her object was, not to prove her story to me, nor to put me in possession of it with a view to my proving it, but simply and briefly to show me what it was, that I might judge as to the probable results of its publication at that time.
It therefore comprised primarily these points:-- 1.

An exact statement, in so many words, of the crime.
2.