"You are pretty enough as little girls go, if that is what you mean."
"Is it wrong to have beaus?"
"That all depends. Why?"
"Oh, I just wanted to know."
Silence.
"A boy in my class, Gerald Prang, says he is my beau."
"Silly fellow."
"Ethel Watts has one. They kiss."
"That's horrid."
"Is it horrid for me and Ethel to kiss?"