No wife wants her husband to be the subject of gossip.
But the real difference to meeting on line was the lack of gossip.
And you're quite right about there being a lot of gossip.
One can be friends with men without that sort of gossip.
Between these two sources of gossip, she knew everything about everyone.
For others it was no more than a source of gossip.
In the next section we'll look at the benefits of gossip.
No, better she let him hear this piece of gossip from someone else.
Though I didn't know it at the time, there was already a good deal of gossip about him.
These things had been the subject of gossip in the village.