SOCIAL ISOLATION
There are multiple references to Scrooge's lack of close relationships and social isolation, including the suggestion that few people would attend his funeral and that he had no particular friends. This is relevant to information discovery about his personal life and social standing.
SCROOGE
'Left it to his company, perhaps. He hasn't left it to _me_. That's all I know.' 'It's likely to be a very cheap funeral,' said the same speaker; 'for, upon my life, I don't know of anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party, and volunteer?' 'When I come to think of it, I'm not at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met. Bye, bye!'