Portia should act as if she is disgusted by Morocco but tries not to show it as she shouldn't be rude, but in the text she is portrayed as racist. Morocco tries to impress her because he wants to be her husband and have all her money. Why else would he travel over seas?
Past perfect is the tense of the underlined verb
<span>External conflict used to be the primary form of conflict in genre or popular fiction. Only in more literary works did heroes grow, change, or even question themselves much. Your genre fiction protagonist knew he or she was a better person than the villain and had no reason to change. So the tension in the story was all about whether the hero could outwit or outfight the villain at the climax, which made for rather shallow characterization. </span>