Ellen. If he relents, there is—nothing is past hope if such a miracle has happened.
Eus. He is past relenting! He is dead!
Ellen. Dead! It is a crime but heaven forgive me, I almost feel thankful for it!
Eus. What the half drunken-woman told me last night, when I tried to see him and obtain a week's delay, and which I thought a mere excuse to avoid me, was true,—he was not only ill, but dying then!
Ellen. To whom will our debt be transferred!
Eus. I don't know, but before that time we shall be ready with the money, and were we not, we can hardly find so merciless a creditor in his successor. We may sleep to-night with light hearts, Ellen. Come! (Exeunt r. h.)
Scr. This is terrible! Let me see some tenderness connected with a death in that dark chamber, which we left just now, Spirit—it will be for ever present to me. (Spirit points onward and slowly exits followed by Scrooge.)
SCENE VI.—Apartment at Bob Cratchit's.
(Mrs. Cratchit, Peter, and the two younger Cratchit's discovered. Candle lighted. The Spirit enters, followed by Scrooge.)
Scr. As through the old familiar streets we passed, I looked in vain to find myself, but nowhere was I to be seen.