SSR Book

My book is A Great & Terrible Beauty. The book takes place in 1895 in India. Gemma is out in the market with her mother and servant. Gemma is trying to convince her mother to let her go to London with her grandma. But her mom won't let her go. A man comes up to her mother and whispers something in her ear. After hearing what he has to say she tells Gemma to go home and not come with her to Mrs. Talbot's for tea. Gemma gets mad because she feels like her and her mother are getting further and further apart. So Gemma gets mad at her mom and said she doesn't want her to come back come and she doesn't care if she ever comes back; then Gemma runs away. She gets lost in the streets and asks for directions but after the man sees who she is and the necklace she's wearing, he slams the door in her face. A boy she saw at the market sees her and comes toward her and all of the sudden she gets scared. She starts to have a tingling sensation in her arms and works its way through her body and she falls on the ground. She's pulled into what she thinks is a dream, which is actually a vision. In this vision she sees a man following her mother. The man brings out a knife but something in the dark shadows devours him. Gemma's mother then picks up the knife and stabs herself. Gemma is then brought back to consciousness. The boy that was with her asked if she seen his brother. She doesn't know what he's talking about and runs to get away from him. While she's running she runs by the shop that was in her vision. People are all gather around and when Gemma makes her way through she sees it's her mother laying there, dead.

    A couple questions I have about this book so far is: Who was that old man that came up to Gemma's mother? Was he a friend? Also, why did the old man turn Gemma away when he saw her? Did it have to do with her family? Why did the boy ask Gemma if she saw his brother? Was the man following Gemma's mother trying to get to her or the thing in the shadows? Lastly, why did Gemma's mother kill herself and her last word was her daughters' name?