Who stops scrooge in the street?
Nobody ever stopped him in the street. Dickens states this as he
continues "to say, with gladsome looks, "My dear Scrooge, how are
you. When will you come to see me.'' No beggars implored him to
bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man
or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and
such a place, of Scrooge. "