I think the short answer is that, yup, Alec is there because he likes Maurice, but the only permissible way to express this is to act like a 'good' servant - even though, in the shooting scene, we've just seen that Alec *doesn't* have much/any deference towards the people he's 'serving'. Maybe the scene is also there to *produce* confusion (between the characters, about Alec's motives, and for us as the audience): (1) to introduce how the class system inhibits any straightforward human interaction and understanding (most crucially, between Maurice and Alec) but also (2) because it would be too much of a giveaway if we understood Alec's feelings/motives too clearly at this point(!)
The dynamic of the shooting scene is slightly different in the novel from the film. I'm not sure whether the difference makes the porch scene clearer, but here goes. In the film, it's made clear Alec is a stroppy character who can't be ar**d to stay out with the 'gentlemen' when there's nothing much to shoot and 'the mist's coming down' (I love Rupert's expressions in this scene). The novel version has some further funny details (despite Maurice's depression) which I kind of wish the film had kept (Maurice's PoV):
"The rain was now less, on the other hand the mist was thicker, the mud stickier, and towards tea time they lost a ferret. The keeper made out this was their fault. Archie knew better, and explained the matter to Maurice in the smoking room with the aid of diagrams..."
This is followed by the hole in the ceiling and the piano-shifting; and we can see a fleeting connection is established between Maurice and Alec at that point (see Alec's later comments in the deleted bed scene), but the class dynamics (i.e. mistrust) soon snap back to normal.
The next day, Alec won't take a tip from Maurice because he likes him, but will take a tip from Archie London because he doesn't. Maurice misconstrues this: when Alec refuses his tip he assumes he's trying to elicit a larger one. This *seems* confirmed when Alec *does* accept a larger tip from Archie – hence Maurice's comment ('Five shillings not good enough for you? Do you only take gold?'), which of course Alec later mocks when he's in bed with Maurice in the hotel in London.
My reading is that Alec is stung by this comment and tries to redeem himself with Maurice by being super-helpful (or super-servile) with the bags in the heavy rain. In the novel, Alec then follows the carriage, definitely to get a last glimpse of Maurice, but this isn't obvious in the film.
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