I find that Amazon is pretty good about treating their customers quite fairly. I had a slip up with an order back in '11 that was completely their fault, and without me even asking for restitution, not only did they give me a copy of what I'd ordered for free, but they gave me $25 off of my next order. I certainly couldn't complain about any of that!
Yes, it was intended for Lysette Anthony (and an interesting thing is that when her casting in the series was first announced in Soap Opera Digest while they were still filming the pilot, she was listed as playing both Angelique and Laura. But I suppose that even though Laura doesn't physically appear in the pilot, it was probably because they used her likeness for the painting in Roger's studio (the scene in which Vicki and David discover that painting was actually scripted and shot for the pilot, but it didn't appear until this ep)).
They were also planning there to be some connection between Laura and Angelique, though they definitely planned to have them be two different people. There wasn't going to be any sort of Angelique/Cassandra twist.
Fill in the blank: "Barnabas quickly closed the doors to the drawing room because he was determined that no one overhear him discussing ________ with Carolyn!!"