Women seem to have eyes in their ribbons for such matters as these.

Bathsheba, without looking within a right angle of him, was conscious of a black sheep among the flock.
It perplexed her first.

If there had been a respectable minority on either side, the case would have been most natural.

If nobody had regarded her, she would have taken the matter indifferently--such cases had occurred.

If everybody, this man included, she would have taken it as a matter of course--people had done so before.