Yes, isn't that strange how John wishes that he were a switched-at-birth Maclellan? But can he prove that his Stewart ancestor was named in a MacLellan lawsuit in the 18th or 19th centuries? And who even knew that he had a Stewart ancestor? And why all those snarky remarks about the dignities of Kirkcudbright?
Yes, I cannot blame them for not giving the money to John. He would just give everything away to his Mexican people, and the rest of us would just be out of luck, out of the loopd as usual.
Yes, and coincidentally, everyone thought that Mrs. Lambert, Wanda Lambert's mother, was a nice lady, who sometimes did substitute teaching at the MK school. But if you were to ask me, I would only be able to remember that she seemed to paint a second set of eyebrows above her eyeglasses, a fashion thing that I would not recommend, at least not to persons reading books aloud to children during the story-time after lunch. Whether there were some interesting MacLellan-Lambert connection there would have been way beyond my capacity to note at the time.
