1. Betrayed, scared, contemptuous, amused, and I believe Shan and I may need to talk some before I form a further answer.
2. Yes, for the most part she never let her contempt show -- she was good at not letting things show, and as a young girl she was much more guilty and conflicted about hating her mother than she is now. She tended to overcompensate.
3. More or less the same way Vanessa did, minus the ill-fated attempt to jump him in the hedge maze (that part I'm quite sure of): she loved him very much and recognized that he was flawed at the heart. And hell no -- if you listen to tiny Mina's tone of voice when she says "but then you're going to marry Peter," she is blatantly sending up a test balloon to see how they both react. She always knew that wasn't happening.
4. She wanted him because, at first, he was exciting and he made her feel beautiful and desirable. But I think that by the time shit blew up, she'd seen him looking sideways at Vanessa and had the thought o god I'm going to turn into my mother, and she'd probably also seen (on some level) that he didn't even have the strength of personality to him that Malcolm does.
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2. Yes, for the most part she never let her contempt show -- she was good at not letting things show, and as a young girl she was much more guilty and conflicted about hating her mother than she is now. She tended to overcompensate.
3. More or less the same way Vanessa did, minus the ill-fated attempt to jump him in the hedge maze (that part I'm quite sure of): she loved him very much and recognized that he was flawed at the heart. And hell no -- if you listen to tiny Mina's tone of voice when she says "but then you're going to marry Peter," she is blatantly sending up a test balloon to see how they both react. She always knew that wasn't happening.
4. She wanted him because, at first, he was exciting and he made her feel beautiful and desirable. But I think that by the time shit blew up, she'd seen him looking sideways at Vanessa and had the thought o god I'm going to turn into my mother, and she'd probably also seen (on some level) that he didn't even have the strength of personality to him that Malcolm does.