Mrs. Leigh had been with Lady Byron during her confinement. There had been no quarrel between them, and no suspicion or suggestion of a quarrel. When Lady Byron left Piccadilly Terrace for Kirkby Mallory, Mrs. Leigh continued, with her knowledge, and without any hint of an objection, to stay in her brother's house. Even when Lady Byron communicated her decision not to return to her husband, she expressed neither surprise at Mrs. Leigh's remaining there, nor desire for her departure. On the contrary, at the very time when she was insisting upon separation, and hinting at charges too awful to be preferred unless the particulars were dragged from her, she was corresponding with Mrs. Leigh, not merely on terms of ordinary politeness, but on terms of confidential intimacy and cordial affection--addressing her as "My dearest A.," "My dearest Sis," "My dearest Gus," &c., &c. A long series of these letters is printed in Mr. Murray's latest edition of Byron's Works. Readers who desire full particulars must be referred to them. A few sentences only need be given here, as an indication of their tone: "If all the world had told me you were doing me an injury, I _ought not_ to have believed it. My chief feeling, therefore, in relation to you and myself must be that I _have_ wronged you, and that you have never wronged me!" "I know you feel for me as I do for you--and perhaps I am better understood than I think. You have been ever since I knew you my best comforter, and will so remain, unless you grow tired of the office, which may well be." "The present sufferings of all _may_ yet be repaid in blessings. Don't despair absolutely, dearest; and leave me but enough of your interest to afford you any consolation by partaking that sorrow which I am most unhappy to cause you thus unintentionally.... Heaven knows you have considered me more than one in a thousand would have done." "I am anxious to acquit you of all misrepresentation, and myself of having supposed that you had misrepresented.... I cannot give you pain without feeling yet more myself." "My dearest A., it is my great comfort that you are in Piccadilly."