As the story unfolds we see Ebenezer's softer side break through
Bah humbug
Bah! Humbug!
''Bah! Humbug!''
It was Belle
The stimulus is what triggers the reflex response.
Ebenezer
Belle
This is occurring when the Ghost of Scrooges past takes him to his old boarding School. Here, although a lonely child at the holiday times as he was the only boarder left in the school whilst all others were home with a family he had "friends" . It is this he remembers fondly but hated the lonliness
Scrooge came from London
Bah....humbug
His nephew
Mr Fizzywigg