So gravely, even when you try to joke.

Now I really think I'm passably pretty, but Mr.Stirling said as plainly as could be: 'I look at you occasionally because that's the proper thing to do, when one talks, but I much prefer looking at that picture over your head.' I don't believe he noticed how my hair was dressed, or the color of my eyes.

Such men are absolutely maddening.
When they've finished their smoke, I'm going to make him notice me." But Miss Leroy failed in her plan, try as she would.

Peter did not notice girls any more.

After worrying in his school and college days, over what women thought of him and how they treated him, he had suddenly ceased to trouble himself about them.