legal gossip spoke of carlotta mayfair arguing with cortland about these affairs , and about wanting to get little antha and little nancy out of the house stella would n't agree to a boarding school for antha and 'everybody knew it ' lionel meantime was having fights with stella an anonymous person called one of our private eyes who had let it be known that he was interested in gossip pertaining to the family , and told him that stella and lionel had had a row in a downtown restaurant and that lionel had walked out .