Steps on the stairs and the clanking of chains.
You can hear things when you are sleeping. For instance if while you are asleep, someone makes a loud noise, this will wake you up. You must therefore have heard the noise while you were asleep.
It means there is someone is at your door and just woke you up while you were sleeping.
It means you were dreaming.
Chains dragging.
He steps into Scrooge's bedroom while Scrooge is a asleep and startles him.
That he was collecting for the poor. He hoped that Scrooge would be generous at this special time. Scrooge questions wheather the prosions, workhouse and treadmill were still in ooperation. he is told they were. Scrooge is pleased to hear this as he is contributing to their opeation in his taxes
Ferret can hear very well, except when sleeping
a shotgun
The duration of While You Were Sleeping is 1.72 hours.
"Let me hear another sound from you," said Scrooge, "and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation!
While You Were Sleeping was created on 1995-04-21.
I am not really sure, but maybe beacuse she was dead and he has not seen her for a while.