EVENT
The text repeatedly references Christmas as a significant event, with characters preparing to celebrate and mentioning the holidays.
CHRISTMAS
'He was not reading now, but walking up and down despairingly. Scrooge looked at the Ghost, and, with a mournful shaking of his head, glanced anxiously towards the door.' ... 'all the other boys had gone home for the jolly holidays.' ... 'but first we're to be together all the Christmas long, and have the merriest time in all the world.' ... 'It was made plain enough, by the dressing of the shops, that here, too, it was Christmas-time again; but it was evening, and the streets were lighted up.'