What could they mean? The dead man could not be his partner Jacob, because he was aleady dead. Scrooge watched carefully, trying to understand. He looked round for his own shadow, but could not see himself .rnywhere. 'Perhaps that's not surprising,' he thought, 'bccause if I change my life, and I'm planning to do that, I won't be the same person in the future!'Just then he noticed the spirit, standing quiet and dark beside him, with its pointing hand. He felt the unseen eyes staring fixedly at him behind the black robe. Scrooge's body shook, and he lclt cold. They left the busy offices and banks, and went to another part of the capital, where Scrooge had never been before