overhear

I overheard, “Let’s dress up, like, for an Oscars party, drink champagne and then order in pizza and wings.”

Yet just the other evening Penelope had overheard her complain that the dressmaker refused to sew another stitch until paid the money owed her.

He looked one way and then the other, as if afraid of being overheard.

She lowered her voice to the sort of loud, gossipy whisper that fairly begs to be overheard.

She almost added, “Especially for ponies,” but she was not sure whether her exhortations to Rainbow while riding the velocipede had been overheard by Simon, so she omitted that detail for now.