20/37 That the crime which separated her from Lord Byron was incest. That she first discovered it by improper actions towards his sister, which, he meant to make her understand, indicated the guilty relation. That he admitted it, reasoned on it, defended it, tried to make her an accomplice, and, failing in that, hated her and expelled her. That he threatened her that he would make it his life's object to destroy her character. That for a period she was led to regard this conduct as insanity, and to consider him only as a diseased person. |