"Of course I do, Chester, if they know each other well enough."
"I mean very frank."
"Well," said Mildred, "if they know each other very, very well, I think they ought to be very frank."
"How long do you think one person ought to know another person before he, or for that matter she, ought to be very frank with that person."
"Oh, months and months," answered Mildred.
Chester passed his white silk handkerchief over his damp brow.
"When I say very frank, I mean very frank," he said.
"That's what I mean, too." She took another chocolate-covered cherry.
Chester went on, speaking rapidly.
"For example, if one person should tell another person that he liked that person and he didn't really mean like at all but another word like like, only meaning something much more than like—don't you think he ought to tell that person what he really meant? I mean, of course, providing that he had known that person months and months and knew her very well and——"