215.] [Footnote 50: _Ib._ p.

217.] But the truth is that Goethe's temporary preoccupation with religion is only another illustration of his "chameleon" temperament.

In gay Leipzig he had promptly taken on the ways of a man about town; now in Frankfort he found himself in a very different society, and he as promptly entered into the spirit of it.

The circle of which he now became a member was a company of religious persons, mostly women, friends or acquaintances of his mother.

Its most prominent member was that Fraeulein von Klettenberg, already mentioned, a woman of high rank, culture, and refinement.