A little discrepancy like this does not disturb the professional scandal-monger.

So tenacious is the habit of making much of nothing, that, deprived of this, her sustenance, she would find life colorless and void.

So, if material does not present itself, she manufactures it.

One must live.
There is also a habit, which, while comparatively innocent, is likely to bring trouble upon the perpetrator.

It is that of making many confidantes.