The principal characters include Dorothea, a young woman with high principles who decides to marry a serious-minded older man whom everybody but She can see is a hopeless loser.

• 主要人物有多拉西亚，是个有高度原则的年轻女人，非要嫁给一个古板的老头子，除了她，人人都看得出那老头是个命定的失败者。