When Scrooge woke up, it was very dark in the room. He heard the church clock start striking, and listened to see what the time was. To his great surprise, the heavy bell went on striking up to twelve, then stopped. Twelve o'clock! It was past two in the morning when he had gone to bed. The clock must be wrong! He looked at his watch. It said twelve o'clock too!

"Have I slept all day? Is it the next night already?" scrooge asked himself. "Or has something happened to the sun? Perhaps it's midday, not midnight! But that's impossible!"

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