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IV . Time Travelling > “ I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine , and showed you the actual thing itself , incomplete in the workshop . There it is now , a little travel - worn , truly ; and one of the ivory bars is cracked , and a brass rail bent ; but the rest of it’s sound enough . I expected to finish it on Friday ; but on Friday , when the putting together was nearly done , I found that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short , and this I had to get remade ; so that the thing was not complete until this morning . It was at ten o’clock today that the first of all Time Machines began its career . I gave it a last tap , tried all the screws again , put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod , and sat myself in the saddle . I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then . I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other , pressed the first , and almost immediately the second . I seemed to reel ; I felt a nightmare sensation of falling ; and , looking round , I saw the laboratory exactly as before . Had anything happened ? For a moment I suspected that my intellect had tricked me . Then I noted the clock . A moment before , as it seemed , it had stood at a minute or so past ten ; now it was nearly half - past three ! “ I drew a breath , set my teeth , gripped the starting lever with both hands , and went off with a thud . The laboratory got hazy and went dark . Mrs . Watchett came in and walked , apparently without seeing me , towards the garden door . I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place , but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket . I pressed the lever over to its extreme position . The night came like the turning out of a lamp , and in another moment came tomorrow . The laboratory grew faint and hazy , then fainter and ever fainter . Tomorrow night came black , then day again , night again , day again , faster and faster still . An eddying murmur filled my ears , and a strange , dumb confusedness descended on my mind .
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