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General Goguet and Roelf Pool had been in Chicago one night and part of a day. Dirk had not met them -- was to meet them at Paula's dinner that evening. He was curious about Pool but not particularly interested in the warrior. Restless, unhappy, wanting to see Dallas (he admitted it, bitterly) he dropped into her studio at an unaccustomed hour almost immediately after lunch and heard gay voices and laughter. Why couldn't she work alone once in a while without that rabble around her!
Dallas in a grimy smock and the scuffed kid slippers was entertaining two truants from Chicago society -- General Emile Goguet and Roelf Pool. They seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely. She introduced Dirk as casually as though their presence were a natural and expected thing -- which it was. She had never mentioned them to him. Yet now: "This is Dirk DeJong -- General Emile Goguet. We were campaigners together in France. Roelf Pool. So were we, weren't we, Roelf?"