midnight
`` Quite right , '' he said ; `` let Soames look after himself . He 's jolly well able to ! '' Thus speaking , the Darties entered their habitat in Green Street , the rent of which was paid by James , and sought a well-earned rest . The hour was midnight , and no Forsytes remained abroad in the streets to spy out Bosinney 's wanderings ; to see him return and stand against the rails of the Square garden , back from the glow of the street lamp ; to see him stand there in the shadow of trees , watching the house where in the dark was hidden she whom he would have given the world to see for a single minute -- she who was now to him the breath of the lime-trees , the meaning of the light and the darkness , the very beating of his own heart . It is in the nature of a Forsyte to be ignorant that he is a Forsyte ; but young Jolyon was well aware of being one . He had not known it till after the decisive step which had made him an outcast ; since then the knowledge had been with him continually . He felt it throughout his alliance , throughout all his dealings with his second wife , who was emphatically not a Forsyte .