I believe that Scrooge is telling Marley that he is really a figment of imagination due to his upset stomach than the acceptance that Marley is really a ghost. In Dickens book "A Christmas Carol", before going home after work , he stops and eats at his usual pub and when he arrives home, Scrooge eats some gruel before he is about to go to bed, because of his upset stomach.
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