Thoughts about the end of Book One of Little Dorrit and what might happen in Book 2

A former colleague used to say his family believed that if all the world's income were distributed evenly it would take about two weeks before the rich would be rich again and the poor would be impoverished. Did Dickens think the same? In one of the weird and in fact impossible narrative twists, so weird and improbable that these twists are sometimes called "Dickensian," CD concludes Book 0ne (at the halfway mark) of Little Dorrit with father Dorrit suddently coming into a huge and unexpected legacy - enough to pay his debts and get him and his family out of the debtors' prison and to begin to live a life of luxury. It takes no time for him to get a beautiful house, liveried servants, a horse and equipage, etc., and to move off to his new life. To his credit, at least he makes a modest distribution to all of the debtors still in prison - though does nothing to really change their lives in any way (he's more interested in his farewell luncheon and in the praise heaped upon him). We suspect that he will be just as crude and stupid and self-centered w/ all his wealth as he was as an imprisoned debtor - completely w/out learning or sympathy from his experiences. I read the book many years ago and have no precise memory of the plot - but I also suspect, following the class-bias of my former colleague's family, that Dorrit will squander his wealth and wind up back where he started. The real question in the 2nd part of LD will be how this sudden wealth - much like a lottery winner's sudden wealth today - will alter Dorrit (if at all) and in particular will alter how people react and behavor toward him, and toward his family - particularly the eponymous Little (Amy) Dorrit. We know that she will never change, but how will she react to the attention soon to be paid to her? It's been obvious from page one that eventually the protagonist, Arthur Clennom, will recognize that he's in love with LD - but will he be too late? Will she be blindsided by a suitor who's really after her money? Will she be pressured by her evil father to marry for rank and wealth and not for love? There's a long way to go in this novel - it's possibly D's longest? - with many strands still loose at the halfway mark.