Which detail from the passage best supports the idea that the girl is observant?
A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike
transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little
wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the
grassy road.
The little June wind, frisking down the street, shook the doleful fringes of the spruces, caught the straw hat of a young man
just passing under them, and spun it across the road into the duck pond.
As he ran to fish it out, the girl on lawyer Royall's doorstep noticed that he was a stranger, that he wore city clothes, and that
he was laughing with all his teeth, as the young and careless laugh at such mishaps.
Her heart contracted a little, and the shrinking that sometimes came over her when she saw people with holiday faces made
her draw back into the house and pretend to look for the key that she knew she already put into her pocket. A mirror hung on the
passage wall, and she looked critically at her reflection, wished for the thousandth time that she had blue eyes, straightened the
sunburnt hat over her small swarthy face, and turned out again into the sunshine.
"How I hate everything!" she murmured
The young man had passed through the Hatchard gate, and she had the street to herself. North Dormer is at all times an
empty place, and at three o'clock on a June afternoon its few able-bodied men are off in the fields or woods, and the women
indoors, engaged in languid household drudgery.
The girl walked along, looking about her with the heightened attention produced by the presence of a stranger in a familiar
place. What did North Dormer look like to people from other parts of the world? She herself had lived there since the age of five
and had long supposed it to be a place of some importance.
