You are wealthy and reserved, hardened and selfish. But one night near Christmas, a ghost visits you. At first you are completely terrified, but he does you no harm. Instead the ghost shows you your own childhood. He makes you realize how you have pushed everyone else away in selfish security. And tragically, he makes you relive how you abandoned your love. It is too much to bare. You try to ward off this ghost.
""Leave me! Take me back! Haunt me no longer!" In the struggle, if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost with no visible resistance on its own part was undisturbed by any effort of its adversary, Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright; and dimly connecting that with its influence over him, he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head."
— Dickens, pg.44
So you are very startled after your first ghost encounter, and you know that at least two more ghosts have yet to haunt you. So you wait for the next ghost.
"Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing; and, consequently, when the Bell struck One, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling."
— Dickens, pg.45
Scared, you realize that light is coming from an adjacent room. Perhaps the second ghost is waiting for you. Do you approach the next ghost, or do you attempt to evade and resist the subsequent specter?