Though Dick Wilkins is his friend in youth, the eventual husband of his one-time fiancée Belle notes that he becomes alone in the world after his partner's death.
When this character complains that the Sunday Observance bills prevent the poor from eating once a week, he hears in response that its sponsors "are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived." The only person who feels emotion at his death is Caroline, who sees it as an opportunity to delay paying debts; meanwhile, the laundress Mrs. Dilber agrees with the fence Joe Hoggs that if he didn't want to have his things looted after death, he should've been "natural" while alive. Though Dick Wilkins is his friend in youth, the eventual husband of his one-time fiancée Belle notes that he becomes alone in the world after his partner's death. He is described as a savage and unpleasant animal in a guessing game by his nephew (*) Fred, though he is later toasted for providing holiday merriment. At another dinner, his employee's toast to him casts a shadow over children Peter, Martha, Belinda, and Tim, though he finally becomes like a "second father" to the latter after raising that employee's salary when he comes in late on the 26th. For 10 points, name this colleague of Old Fezziwig and Jacob Marley from "A Christmas Carol."
When this character complains that the Sunday Observance bills prevent the poor from eating once a week, he hears in response that its sponsors "are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.
Ebenezer {Scrooge}