Are there options, I assumed there would be since you used the word "which".
The narrator of Stolen Day is a boy; the narrator of The Night the Bed Fell is grown up.
The answers are the following:
"For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks. Suppressing a strong inclination to laugh, I stepped through the bronze frame and up to the Time Machine;"
" I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned. I have suspected since that the Morlocks had even partially taken it to pieces while trying in their dim way to grasp its purpose "
