The beginning of Our Mutual Friend

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I have recently started Our Mutual Friend. It is more dense than other Dickens books I've read. I particularly had a hard time with chapter 2. There was a character called Mr Tremlow who was described as being a piece of furniture. For about a page and a half, I wondered whether he was in fact a table. There are lots of references and allusions to things I could not pick up on. There are lots of names to remember.