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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.
I would say that A is the answer. B is irrelevant, C makes the point debatable as it acknowledges that not everyone has access and I feel like A is more important than D to the sort of people who would set questions