By the way, thundley4, sir, it's the third man on the totem pole, Elad, who's the elusive enigmatic one, the one hard to define because he stays in the background.
EarlG, the second man on the totem pole, the British subject, is Lord Marblehead, because he thinks he knows all about America and Americans even before the soles on his shoes are dry from coming ashore here. He's trying to emulate Fanny Trollope and Charles Dickens and Randolph Churchill, and flops worse than they did.