eleven o'clock
Tantripp would never have found the clew to this mystery . Dorothea wished to acknowledge that she had not the less an active life before her because she had buried a private joy ; and the tradition that fresh garments belonged to all initiation , haunting her mind , made her grasp after even that slight outward help towards calm resolve . For the resolve was not easy . Nevertheless at eleven o'clock she was walking towards Middlemarch , having made up her mind that she would make as quietly and unnoticeably as possible her second attempt to see and save Rosamond . Du Erde warst auch diese Nacht beständig , Und athmest neu erquickt zu meinen Füssen , Beginnest schon mit Lust mich zu umgeben , Du regst und rührst ein kräftiges Beschliessen _ Zum höchsten Dasein immerfort zu streben _ . -- Faust : 2r Theil . When Dorothea was again at Lydgate 's door speaking to Martha , he was in the room close by with the door ajar , preparing to go out .