The narrator is invited to dinner in remembrance of an event that occurred some time ago in which the Time Traveler announced he created a time machine. The Time Traveler then arrives, ragged and dirty. After cleaning himself up and eating he recounts his story those who were invited including the narrator.
It comes from the heart, you have to be brave and strong to have courage.
The sentence that shows that the speech is addressed to primarily female audience would be: We do not propose to petition the legislature to make our husbands just, generous, and courteous, to seat every man at the head of a cradle, and to clothe every woman in male attire.
I put a highlight on the phrase our husbands. The sentence basically created in order to put a sense of shared experience that every female audience could relate. This type of technique commonly used in order to make the audience feel a sense of unity from the shared experience.
