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III . The Time Traveller Returns I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine . The fact is , the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed : you never felt that you saw all round him ; you always suspected some subtle reserve , some ingenuity in ambush , behind his lucid frankness . Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller’s words , we should have shown him far less scepticism . For we should have perceived his motives : a pork - butcher could understand Filby . But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements , and we distrusted him . Things that would have made the fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands . It is a mistake to do things too easily . The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment ; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with eggshell china . So I don’t think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next , though its odd potentialities ran , no doubt , in most of our minds : its plausibility , that is , its practical incredibleness , the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested . For my own part , I was particularly preoccupied with the trick of the model . That I remember discussing with the Medical Man , whom I met on Friday at the Linnæan . He said he had seen a similar thing at Tübingen , and laid considerable stress on the blowing - out of the candle . But how the trick was done he could not explain . The next Thursday I went again to Richmond — I suppose I was one of the Time Traveller’s most constant guests — and , arriving late , found four or five men already assembled in his drawing - room . The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other . I looked round for the Time Traveller , and — “ It’s half - past seven now , ” said the Medical Man . “ I suppose we’d better have dinner ? ” “ Where’s — — ? ” said I , naming our host . “ You’ve just come ? It’s rather odd . He’s unavoidably detained . He asks me in this note to lead off with dinner at seven if he’s not back . Says he’ll explain when he comes . ” “ It seems a pity to let the dinner spoil , ” said the Editor of a well - known daily paper ; and thereupon the Doctor rang the bell .
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