midday
It was long before Thekla was pacified , and Malcolm himself was deeply troubled at the thought that the girl might be left alone and unprotected in a strange place . Still there appeared every probability that she would be able to remain there in safety until an opportunity should occur for her to make her way to Nuremberg . It was with a heavy heart , caused far more by the thought of Thekla 's position than of danger to himself , that he took his way to the castle ; but he felt that his duty was imperative , and was at heart convinced that Wallenstein would eagerly embrace his offer . It was not until midday that he was able to see the duke . Wallenstein had been greatly angered as well as alarmed at the resistance which his scheme had met with on the previous evening . He had believed that his favours and liberality had so thoroughly attached his generals to his person that they would have followed him willingly and without hesitation , even in a war against the emperor , and the discovery that , although willing to support him against deprivation from his command , they shrunk alarmed at the idea of disloyalty to the emperor , showed that his position was dangerous in the extreme . He found that the signatures to the document had for the most part been scrawled so illegibly that the writers would be able to repudiate them if necessary , and that deceit was evidently intended .