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.
They are adjectives used to describe how someone says a line or they are verbs that give an actor or actress some kind of action to do while they say the line.
The best synonym for this word would be B, surrender.