Is it just me or is the way the sleep talking part on page 10 sounds weird. Like I read it as Nell, let me marry your daughter. I don’t know maybe that was a bad way of wording that speech or something.
I wonder if the author did want to expose Clover this early. It might be a stretch but on both page two and four there is a highly detailed four leaf clover on the side of the new brother’s neck. And looking at the previous chapter the tattoo was still there, but not really visible. I guess...
Christians do not believe or push marrying children to anyone and neither does the Jewish community. I don’t know if you are referring to Mary and Joseph in that comment, but there is no place in the NT that says that Joseph was old. But I do agree with your second comment and I want to see if...