"Dick Wilkins, to be sure!" said Scrooge to the Ghost.

The theme is not so much the duty of service as the joy of service, the happiness that we feel in making others happy; and the four carols mark the four stages in the conversion of Scrooge from solitary selfishness to social good will.

"Hallo!" growled Scrooge in his accustomed voice, as near as he could feign it.