That, no doubt, is the exaggeration of a sentimentalist. Theresa's hopes can hardly have been serious. Landladies' daughters, have too many hopes deferred and disappointed to allow the disappointment of any hope in particular to blight their lives. Theresa, in due course, became Mrs. Black, the wife, like her mother, of a vice-consul; and she lived to the great age of eighty, "a tall old lady," writes the United States Consular Agent at Athens, "with features inspiring reverence, and showing that at a time past she was a beautiful woman." Her countrymen, however, did not forget that she had been the Maid of Athens; and, Byron's services to the Greek cause being also remembered, a public subscription provided for the necessities of her last years. That is all that there is to say about her unless it be to repeat that she played but a very minor part in the pageant of Byron's life, and cannot even be spoken of as Mrs. Spencer Smith's only rival. For there were others; and though the other stories are clouded with a good deal of doubt, they cannot fail to leave a certain collective impression of Byron as a man whom all women found attractive and many women found susceptible. At Smyrna, for instance, there was a Mrs. Werry, whose name and effusive proceedings are mentioned by Hobhouse: "Mrs. Werry actually cut off a lock of Byron's hair on parting from him to-day, and shed a good many tears. Pretty well for fifty-six years at least!" At Athens, too, there was a second affair of which there is a full and circumstantial account in Medwin's "Conversations of Lord Byron." The heroine was a Turkish girl of whom Byron was "fond as I have been of few women." All went well, he told Medwin, until the Fast of Ramadan, when Law and Religion prohibit love-making for forty days, and the women are not allowed to quit their apartments. An attempt to arrange an assignation at this season was detected. The penalty was to be death, and Byron was to be kept in ignorance of everything until it was too late to interfere: