1. Why has Maureen's family decided to send her to boarding school?

2. Why has the laird donated the use of his hunting lodge to Logan Academy for Young Ladies?

3. How is the war affecting the students at Logan Academy?

4. How is Maureen putting a good effort into her time with Logan Academy? What more could she do to fit in better or to make living there more pleasant? Would that be a reasonable effort?

5. When does Maureen feel that she has truly arrived at Logan Academy and feels welcome? When the taxi delivers her? When she is met by Miss Priestley? When she meets her dorm mates in Lower Fifth form? When she finds the carved stone head? On meeting Mrs.MacDougall? When she becomes a Magpie? After her release from the icehouse?

6. How important are matters of conscience to Maureen?

7. Why is it a...