From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 18/10/2025 23.46, Robert Woodward wrote:   
   > In article <10d0j4v$1vakh$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >   "Michael F. Stemper"  wrote:   
      
   >> Lacy and MacDougall went to the speeder, which was free, removed him   
   >> from it, and inerted him separately so as not to worsen the damage.   
   >> After getting him down to Tellus, they put him in a trauma-care ward.   
   >> Days or weeks later, when he regained consciousness was when he and   
   >> MacDougall first met.   
   >>   
   >> They certainly made impressions on each other. He called her a   
   >> "dumb-bell" and she called him a "brat".   
   >>   
   >> But, this is what I was talking about. When they first met.   
   >   
   > I was thinking a particular scene was before that; I appear to be wrong.   
      
   Is it possible that the scene you were recalling comes from _Gray Lensman_?   
   I'm thinking specifically of Chapter 2 ("Wide Open Two-Way"). Kinnison   
   goes to a military ball and after dancing with some debutantes and airheads,   
   he encounters MacDougall.   
      
   They already knew each other at that point (from their two encounters in   
   _Galactic Patrol_) and he accidentally opened his mind to her.   
      
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   Michael F. Stemper   
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