 Early 20th @-@ century biographer André Maurois argues that " what Byron was capable of loving in another was a certain kind of innocence and youthfulness " and that the relationship was one of Byron 's " protective passions " . Likewise , G. Wilson Knight , in his 1953 biography of Byron , believes that Byron became protective over Giraud just as he did with all of the children he met during his travels . Giraud was special to Byron , and , according to Knight , " it was probably of Nicolo that he was thinking when he wrote that Greece was ' the only place I was ever contented in ' " . In Byron : A Biography , published in 1957 , Marchand points out that Byron " wished Hobhouse there to share the nonsensical gaiety " of when Byron and Giraud were together , but changed his mind after remembering that Hobhouse 's personality would not be conducive to entertainment . Their time together " was a relaxed pleasure that [ Byron ] was to remember more fondly than most of the adventures of his travels " . 
