Some are. Some aren't. No human is very good at detecting deception.
The answer is The setting creates a main conflict and elevates the tension in the story.
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.
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A. Explanations of nature
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