“Please ghost, tell me,” asked Scrooge.
“will Tiny Tim live?”
“The future can be changed,” said the ghost, “but right now I see only an empty chair where Tiny Tim is sitting.”
Scrooge looked very sad when he heard these words.
“But why do you care?” the ghost asked.
“Didn’t you say there were too many people in the world? Isn’t Tiny Tim dying a good thing for you?”
Scrooge remembered what he had told the two gentlemen in his office. He felt ashamed.