Fezziwig's Ball and a Thought of the Clerk

1 The lamplit city at Christmas dusk, with crowds, glowing shop windows and jammed coaches

2 Scrooge cries out in delight at old Fezziwig, perched high behind his desk

3 In Fezziwig's warehouse, old Scrooge in his nightcap points at two young apprentices

4 Fezziwig's cleared warehouse fills with guests who come in "anyhow and everyhow".

5 Old Fezziwig springs into the air, his calves shining like moons

6 The ball is over and the two apprentices turn away to their beds.

7 For a moment the old miser speaks with the heat of the young apprentice he once was.

8 Scrooge breaks off in the middle of his warm defence of Fezziwig.

9 After Fezziwig's ball, Scrooge admits he would like a word with his clerk