text:  Well, anyway, that's what the judge and I were discussing. And he was asking you to deliver the speech. Well, no, not exactly, Miss McKinley. Originally, our congressman was supposed to make the speech. But he couldn't be here, so he had to ask somebody else. So the congressman himself asked you. Are you a close friend of his, too? Well, I voted for him. Helped put him in office, I mean.