I wonder when Mary realized what she had gotten into by saying yes. I imagine at some point she realized all the implications of her willingness to serve God by being the mother of Jesus. I wonder, though, if all that dawned on her while Gabriel was talking to her. Not much is said about Mary in the Gospels in terms of age, upbringing, and so on. Most of what we believe we infer by context. We believe Mary to have been relatively young for marriage by our standards, perhaps as young as twelve or thirteen.1 That would have been the normal age for a young peasant woman to be married.
