Daniel Shellenbarger’s Reviews > Blandings Castle > Status Update

Ok, I confess, I'm confused, so Freddie is trying to sell dog food to his aunt Gertrude, whom he shortly thereafter discovers is the object of affection of his old college friend Beefy Bingham, ok, maybe a young aunt, fine, but then he says that his father is Gertrude's uncle... that seems... unlikely unless they're secretly Hapsburgs... do Brits call older cousins aunts and uncles???

"A curious expression came into Angus McAllister's face - always excepting the occupied territories. It was the look of a man who has not forgotten Bannockburn, a man conscious of belong to the country of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. He made Scotch noises at the back of his throat."