OK, so I was really cross with Dorcas in last week's episode and her "something missing" comment. So much so that I have arranged to go out tonight and will miss episode 8. I am regretting it now, of course. Will have to catch up on iplayer.
Perhaps the young Dorcas was right; that even though Timothy was so in love with her that he was prepared to cast convention aside, the marriage might have been a disaster in the face of society's opprobrium.
That doesn't mean that Dorcas hasn't continued to love him, perhaps only realising just how much when it was too late and he was married to someone else.
If they married now (or a series or two down the line) the fiercy furnace of heartache and repressed longing they have been through should have left them mature enough to make it work.
There would the small matter of the lovely Adelaide for the script writers to sideline! Actually, I have warmed towarRAB her, but even so, I do have some fanfiction storylines in gestation involving death in childbirth or possibly being run over by a horse and carriage as she hastens to meet her gentleman friend, if the writers need any inspiration!
I have written a chapter of fanfic about the very first meeting of Dorcas and Timothy, if anyone is interested, posted on LiveJournal
http://lady-loves-blue.livejournal.com/1406.html