[ Look, the fact that she seems so receptive of this gossip only makes it more fun to talk about. ]

Well, he told me after he followed me home in the dead of night. [ Which.. sounds kind of ominous, but Billy doesn't sound too bothered about it.

In the end it had been a good thing, after all. It gave him gossip!! ]

He could not find you, and he must have figured out that the two of us know each other to come ask me about you instead.