1. Why would Lady Merion be deemed old enough to marry at age fourteen?

In what era would this have been the custom? What other grown-up behavior would have been expected of Lady Merion?

2. How does the angel of "Lady Merion's Angel" compare with the others in Here There Be Angels?

3. What does the Bible say about angels?

Do any of them resemble the one in "Lady Merion's Angel"?

4. What might Lady Merion's garden look like? What would have been typical of English gardens of her era?

5. Lady Merion seems to tend her garden and make her tapestry for pleasure.

What else would a young woman of her age and social station have done for entertainment in seventeenth-century Scotland?

6. What sort of tapestry would Lady Merion work on? What would it look like? What would be its most important features? How...