She finds green trees and neighborlinessbut also: gossip, spite, talebearing and the town's incessant interest in the most personal affairs of its every inhabitant.
She pushed the point that they were a talebearing species.
When the trial recessed over the weekend, Judy's purse had become a symbol of the evil lurking in the kind of overzealous snooping, gossip and talebearing which seemed to be one .