He married his wife without love, in a gloomy, melancholy, morose state of mind.

The servants testify to strange, unaccountable treatment of her immediately after marriage; such that her confidential maid advises her return to her parents.

In Lady Byron's letter to Mrs.Leigh, she reminds Lord Byron that he always expressed a desire and determination to free himself from the marriage.

Lord Byron himself admits to Madame de Stael that his behaviour was such, that his wife must have thought him insane.

Now we are asked to believe, that simply because, under these circumstances, Lady Byron wished to live separate from her husband, he hated and feared her so that he could never let her alone afterwards; that he charged her with malice, slander, deceit, and deadly intentions against himself, merely out of spite, because she preferred not to live with him.