It was impossible to sustain this high-speed pace. She decided to take things a bit easier - with both performances and men. One lover at a time, for instance, and for a longer time period. 

In the summer of 1906, this was Herr Kiepert, a rich, large landowner in Berlin and a lieutenant in the Eleventh Regiment of the Westphalian Calvary. He rented an apartment for her close to the Kurfürstendamm. With him, she was a witness to the imperial army's manoeuvres in Silesia which would later play a role in her espionage affair. Although not performing in Berlin, she gave her 'Indian' dance in Vienna from 15 December 1906 to 16 January 1907. 

By now, the name of Mata Hari was a household word. Her name graced packages of cigarettes and tea. Even Mata Hari's father, Adam Zelle, attempted to profit from her popularity by writing a book full of made-up stories about her. 

After Vienna, she travelled to Egypt and Italy. By the end of 1907 she was back again in Paris. In 1908 and 1909 she appeared with new dances but performed chiefly for charity since she no longer had to dance to earn a living. 

In 1910 she was again in Monte Carlo. This was the site, on 7 January, for the premiere of 'Antar' which displayed the music of Rimsky-Korsakov and in which Mata Hari danced the 'Danse du Feu'.

From June 1910 until the end of 1911, the life of Mata Hari was quieter. She was then living at the Chateau de la Dorée near Tours, the castle being rented for her by a banker known as Rousseau, who also paid for the rest of her luxurious lifestyle. It was during the 1911-1912 season when the pinnacle of Mata Hari's artistic career as a dancer was reached: she performed in two ballets at La Scala in Milan. In the autumn of 1912, she was living in a villa in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris. There, she gave several garden performances accompanied by an orchestra under the direction of Inayat Khan, the founder of the Sufi movement. Since she was temporarily without a wealthy lover (Rousseau had gone bankrupt), she had to start making some money to pay for her extravagant way of living. She danced in an operetta and, then as a Spanish dancer, in the new review for the Folies-Bergère.

In February 1914, Mata Hari was back in Berlin with Kiepert, her former boyfriend. She was supposed to perform in the Metropoltheater in September, but four weeks before her performance, World War I erupted. In her scrapbook, she wrote, 'La guerre, théâtre fermé, partie de Berlin'.

She then managed to travel by way of Frankfort to the Netherlands. Here, she settled in The Hague where she rented a house, the bills being paid by Baron Van der Capellen, a colonel in the Dutch calvary. Now that she was back in the Netherlands, Margreet made an attempt to contact her daughter, but MacLeod prevented her from doing so. In December 1915, even though it was wartime, she made a short trip to Paris, travelling by way of England and Spain, to collect ten chests of her personal possessions.