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When it comes to English Abolition and women rights, the sentence " Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter", contains an idiom ''out of kilter'' which means out of balance or not properly adjusted, in a state of chaos. The synonym would be ''out of whack''. In this situation we can consider this sentence to be informal.
The narrator is invited to dinner as an anniversary of sorts that happened a long time ago, where he announced that he built a time machine. And then he arrives dirty and rugged beginning to tell the guests his story