When he made it home, he went straight to bed. Just as he was falling asleep, he heard the sound of chains dragging down the hallway towards his room. When he opened his eyes he saw the ghost of his former business partner. “Jacob Marley!” he exclaimed, “It can't be you.”
He attempted to dismiss the ghost, but Jacob Marley would not leave. He warned Scrooge that, “each of these chains represents a bad deed I did in life. It is not too late for you, mend your stingy, mean ways. You will be visited by three ghosts.” And with that Jacob Marley disappeared.
Scrooge pulled the sheets over his head and tried to go back to sleep.