Eh, I don't think Marigold is planning anything devious, at least not intentionally*. She might still be a strain depending on how she acts and I'm sure Angus and Faye will potentially jump through hoops and hilarious hi-jinks to avoid her knowing about them since they don't know she knows.
I do think her basically 180 degree turn of character / behavior is rather
sudden, but I've been expecting a Marigold Redemption arc anyway, so at least it looks to be short.
I guess we'll have to see how she behaves going forward. Also someone should tell Dr. Corrinne about the novel new treatment of just complimenting boobs to make everything work out
I think she would find the situation easier to deal with if Angus and Faye were together. This is my reasoning:
If they're together, then she could blame her lack of a relationship with Angus on the fact that Angus was interested in someone else. If that were not the case then she would have to face the thought, from her own low self-esteem that there was something wrong with her.
I think this could play a big part. In
this strip she specifically whines about Angus not saying "Sorry Marigold, I'm interested in someone else" despite his having already told her flat out that he wasn't interested in
her. Marigold's implication is that without that someone else, Angus would have / may have been interested in Marigold. So as long as Angus is into Faye, there's a convenient reason he's not into her.
*That said, devious Marigold would be interesting. Mostly because, without the whining, there's not a whole lot of character there despite her being in the comic for something getting close to 300 strips.