Lewis at Oatlands was observed one morning to have his eyes red, and his air sentimental. Being asked why, he replied,
'that when people said anything kind to him, it affected him deeply; and just now the Duchess has said something so kind to me that. . . '
Here tears began to flow again.
'Never mind, Lewis,' said Colonel Armstrong to him, 'never mind, don't cry. She could not mean it.'
From Byron: A Self Portrait, ed. Peter Quennell (1950), ii. 614.