Some random thoughts:
I am also glad that Rokesmith has been unmasked as John Harmon, the universe has been conspiring against me to ensure this fact was spoilered from an early stage (I hope I would have worked it out by now though!).
I have also been reading chapter summaries as I go along, on a website called Shmoop, they don't contain spoilers but I did manage to briefly open up a book summary by accident that told me, before I realised what it was, who Rokesmith actually was.
On top of that the DVD I bought listed actor Steven Mackintosh as John Harmon and on top of that a question in a recent University Challenge was, 'How is John Harmon described in the title of a Dickens Novel?' After all that I'd have been pretty pissed off if Rokesmith's true identity had been the big reveal that the books climax relied upon for dramatic effect.
Bella is insufferable, and is quite clearly Harmon's love interest, why?
All she has to recommend her is a pretty face, how shallow Harmon must be if that's the only attraction. I'm assuming she's going to become a better person over the course of the book and overcome her desire to marry rich because of her love for 'Rokesmith' only to discover he's actually Harmon and as rich as Croesus.
I had assumed Headstone was a goodie and Eugene a baddie but it would seem that Headstone isn't so good, I should have guessed from the name Dickens is never subtle on that score.
Lizzie's brother Charlie is an ungrateful little scroat isn't he? Hopefully he's going to see the error of his ways before too long.
Rogue Riderhood is aka Roger Riderhood, the nasty piece of work who used to be the partner of Lizzie's father, Gaffer Hexham. Gaffer broke ties with Riderhood because he was robbing the living as well as the dead thus overstepping the mark in Gaffer's eyes.
Riderhood tries to frame Gaffer for murder. He suggests to the land lady of their local pub that Gaffer is helping the cadavers he finds in the river end up that way with a blow to the head - getting them both banned in the process.
He subsequently visits Lawyer Lightwood to swear an affidavit or 'Alfred David' as he has it, that Gaffer told him he'd committed the murder of John Harmon.
I was tickled by this bit suggesting that high society is jealous of the Lammles imaginary house. Now their friends actual houses seem shabby to their eyes by comparison 😊
“Mr and Mrs Lammle's house in Sackville Street, Piccadilly, was but a temporary residence. It has done well enough, they informed their friends, for Mr Lammle when a bachelor, but it would not do now. So, they were always looking at palatial residences in the best situations, and always very nearly taking or buying one, but never quite concluding the bargain. Hereby they made for themselves a shining little reputation apart. People said, on seeing a vacant palatial residence, 'The very thing for the Lammles!' and wrote to the Lammles about it, and the Lammles always went to look at it, but unfortunately it never exactly answered. In short, they suffered so many disappointments, that they began to think it would be necessary to build a palatial residence. And hereby they made another shining reputation; many persons of their acquaintance becoming by anticipation dissatisfied with their own houses, and envious of the non-existent Lammle structure. The handsome fittings and furnishings of the house in Sackville Street were piled thick and high over the skeleton up-stairs, and if it ever whispered from under its load of upholstery, 'Here I am in the closet!' it was to very few ears, and certainly never to Miss Podsnap's.”
Jenny Wren is a total caricature, with her 'tricks and manners'.