The answer should be showiness
Answer:
B. The Time Machine
Explanation:
The narrator meets the Medical Man at the Linnaean Society in the city. The Medical Man thinks the Time Machine thing was a trick, but he can't figure out how the Time Traveller did it. The narrator goes back the following week for the Time Traveller's weekly dinner party.
A. Books, because a common noun denotes a class of objects, i.e. books, instead of a particular object or individual.