Belle, Ebenezer's ex-fiancee, first appears in a distant memory, as Scrooge travels through his early years with the Ghost of Christmas Past. In that particular memory, we see Belle break off her engagement, citing that Scrooge has changed, and that he is now more in love with money than he is with her.
In Scrooge's second encounter with Belle, he visits a more recent scene -- one that he had not previously known of. In the second scene, Belle appears in her home, with her doting husband and children. There, she recounts her early romance with Scrooge. Her husband remarks that the present day Scrooge must be lonely now that Marley has died. The implication is that Scrooge has nothing else in his life. In Belle's life, Scrooge sees firsthand the kind of existence that his own love of money has kept him from.
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