I just have to say what a wonder it is that Dotsie's full name is Dorothea...

Has anyone ever read Middlemarch? (the George Eliot novel).

the heroine's name is Dorothea. The last paragraph reads:

"... the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."


I think all of us will agree that "things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been" except that we have had the good fortune to meet up with Dotsie.