Scrooge's Lasting Transformation

Scrooge is better than his word. He does everything he promised and infinitely more. To Tiny Tim, who does not die, he becomes a second father. He becomes as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old City knew. Some people laugh at the alteration in him, but he lets them laugh, knowing that his own heart laughs, and that is enough for him. He has no further intercourse with Spirits, but lives upon the Total-Abstinence Principle ever afterwards, and it is always said of him that he knows how to keep Christmas well.