Scrooge & Miss Penny Wise

Kriton Kyrimis kyrimis at cti.gr
Fri Jun 28 08:31:04 CEST 2002


FRANK:

> Of course you're talking about Ms. Penny Wise. But what document? Does
> Scrooge mention this in the original or in the Greek version? In the German
> version there's no document involved at all. Scrooge only has a bad
> conscience, because the lady wanted to marry him forty years earlier. After
> her house explodes he says something like "Now you can demand everything,
> when is the marriage supposed to be?"

Quoting from memory, in the English version, Ms. Penny Wise had a document
(or was it just information) which she could use to sue Scrooge for every
penny he had. As it turned out, however, Ms. Wise had no intention of
doing so. She had all the money she needed to live comfortably, and the
only thing she desired was a gingerbread house, which she got in the end
of the story.

Given that I got her name wrong, I probably got most of the details wrong,
too. But there definitely was no reference to a marriage.

	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
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