TIME CONFUSION
Scrooge is confused about the passage of time after his supernatural encounter, questioning whether he has slept through a whole day and finding the clock to be wrong.
EBENEZER SCROOGE
When Scrooge awoke it was so dark, that, looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. ... To his great astonishment, the heavy bell went on from six to seven, and from seven to eight, and regularly up to twelve; then stopped. Twelve! It was past two when he went to bed. The clock was wrong. An icicle must have got into the works. Twelve! ... 'Why, it isn't possible,' said Scrooge, 'that I can have slept through a whole day and far into'