'We were once very near neighbours this autumn;[40] and a good and bad neighbourhood it has proved to me. Suffice it to say that your French quotation (Si je récommençais ma carrière, je ferais tout ce que j'ai fait) was confoundedly to the purpose,--though very _unexpectedly_ pertinent, as you may imagine by what I _said_ before, and my silence since. However, "Richard's himself again," and, except all night and some part of the morning, I don't think very much about the matter. All convulsions end with me in rhyme; and to solace my midnights I have scribbled another Turkish story ['The Bride of Abydos'] which you will receive soon after this.... I have written this, and published it, for the sake of _employment_--to wring my thoughts from reality, and take refuge in "imaginings," however "horrible."... This is the work of a week....' In order the more effectually to dispose of the theory that Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster was the cause of Byron's disquietude, we insert an extract from his journal, dated a fortnight earlier (November 14, 1813): 'Last night I finished "Zuleika" [the name was afterwards changed to 'The Bride of Abydos'], my second Turkish tale. I believe the composition of it kept me alive--for it was written to drive my thoughts from the recollection of * * * * "Dear sacred name, rest ever unrevealed." At least, even here, my hand would tremble to write it.... I have some idea of expectorating a romance, but what romance could equal the events '"... quæque ipse ... vidi, Et quorum pars magna fui"?' Surely the name that Byron dared not write, even in his own journal, was not that of Lady Frances Webster, whose name appears often in his correspondence. The 'sacred name' was that of one of whom he afterwards wrote, 'Thou art both Mother and May.' During October, November, and December, 1813, Byron's mind was in a perturbed condition. We gather, from a letter which he wrote to Moore on November 30, that his thoughts were centred on a lady living in Nottinghamshire[41], and that the scrape, which he mentions in his letter to Augusta on November 8, referred to that lady and the dreaded prospects of maternity.