The era in which "Lady Merion's Angel" is set is the seventeenth century; it was an era in which there were lords and ladies who had sumptuous homes and many servants, and it was an era in which at age fourteen Lady Merion would be considered old enough to marry. The place is either northern England or Scotland (probably Scotland, because it was a Scottish locale that inspired the story), a place north of the firths where English would be spoken.

Lady Merion's garden sounds like a traditional English garden, with well-kept paths and a mixing of trees and flowering bushes. Given that Lady Merion has taken good care of it, it sounds like a place that might actually attract a wandering angel, as at first appears to be the case when an angel flies in to smell the flowers.

The action in the kitchen serves primarily to...