Lois’s answer to “Pardon if this has been asked before - I loaded about 300 of the Asks here and didn't see it, so...…” > Likes and Comments

I always had the feeling that "bemused" was not used, in your books, as a full synonym of amused, but, just as in definition 3 above, describing a mild amusement with some amount of surprise, of distance.

Not so easy to translate.....