The story of Scrooge One day he met the spirit of the Friends of Marlene Marlene warns Scrooge to observe the spirit. The first is the spirit of the past. Spirit Scrooge back in time to view past events. He saw himself in his youth, the spirit of two souls, two giants in the large. Scrooge has come to see that he's really living in the present. Spirit, soul of the future, the couple learned of the death of a man without a name. He was stunned when I read his own name on the grave.