Why, then, did he hate her for wanting to live peaceably by herself?
Why did he so fear her, that not one year of his life passed without his concocting and circulating some public or private accusation against her?
She, by his own showing, published none against him.

It is remarkable, that, in all his zeal to represent himself injured, he nowhere quotes a single remark from Lady Byron, nor a story coming either directly or indirectly from her or her family.

He is in a fever in Venice, not from what she has spoken, but because she has sealed the lips of her counsel, and because she and her family do not speak: so that he professes himself utterly ignorant what form her allegations against him may take.

He had heard from Shelley that his wife silenced the most important calumny by going to make Mrs.Leigh a visit; and yet he is afraid of her,--so afraid, that he tells Moore he expects she will attack him after death, and charges him to defend his grave.
Now, if Lord Byron knew that his wife had a deadly secret that she could tell, all this conduct is explicable: it is in the ordinary course of human nature.

Men always distrust those who hold facts by which they can be ruined.