It never kept the neighbors awake.

Besides, everyone was still very much impressed by Lantier's good manners.

His charm helped greatly to keep tongues from wagging.

Indeed, when the fruit dealer insisted to the tripe seller that there had been no intimacies, the latter appeared to feel that this was really too bad, because it made the Coupeaus less interesting.
Gervaise was quite at her ease in this matter, and not much troubled with these thoughts.

Things reached the point that she was accused of being heartless.