I don't know whether the thing was really noticeable, but it seemed that everyone was--that everyone must be--remarking it.

I thought I caught women making smile-punctuated remarks behind fans, men answering inaudibly with eyes discreetly on the ground.

It was a mixed assembly, somebody's liquidation of social obligations, and there was a sprinkling of the kind of people who do make remarks.

It was not the noticeability for its own sake that I hated, but the fact that their relations by their noticeability made me impossible, whilst the notice itself confirmed my own fears.

I hung, glowering in corners, noticeable enough myself, I suppose.
The thing reached a crisis late in the evening.