These visions reveal that Scrooge was a lonely child whose father sent him away to a boarding school, and whose younger sister Fan repeatedly begged their father to allow Ebenezer to return home, until he at last relented.
That Scrooge was a lonely child whose father sent him away to a boarding school, and whose younger sister Fan repeatedly begged their father to allow Ebenezer to return home, until he at last relented. This is what these visions reveal.