His so-called friend meant to kill them, there, in the forest.
I would never get to tell her what a best friend meant to me.
This may be what his friends mean when they call him a genius.
His friends meant well, but they did not understand.
Your friend means well, but he is one man, standing on his own against two armies.
"And in such a hurry, he never got the chance to say how much those friends had meant to him."
But friends means such a lot don't they, at that age?
Charlie doesn't understand it, but sees that his friend means what he says, and they go their separate ways.
Perhaps that is what her friends meant by "telling the truth".
A friend in those days would have meant bankruptcy of the worst sort.