She did not attract a great deal of attention from them.
They were all French at St.Armand, but most of the strangers which chance brought that way spoke English, so that the St.Armand folks could speak English also.
Anything which is repeated at appreciable intervals has to occur very often before the unscientific mind will perceive the law of its repetition.

There was a little red-haired Englishman, John Gilby by name, who travelled frequently that way.

It was a good while before the loungers at the station remarked that upon a certain day in the week he always arrived by the local train and waited for the evening train to take him on to Montreal.

It was, in fact, Gilby himself who pointed out to them the regularity of his visits, for he was of a social disposition, and could not spend more than a few afternoons at that dull isolated station without making friends with some one.

He travelled for a firm in Montreal; it was his business to make a circuit of certain towns and villages in a certain time.