BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
Scrooge's business friends in the City are mentioned as being surprised by his emotional reaction to his childhood memories, indicating his association with the City as a business location.
CITY
To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the City, indeed.