Chapter 2 Summary

Although they do not believe the experiment, most of them think about it all week. The following Thursday, they are invited back to dinner. This time the Journalist and the Editor join them. When they arrive, the Medical Man is there with a note from the Time Traveler. The note states that he will be a bit late and the Medical Man should start dinner. The Time Traveler arrives, as they are about to start dinner. He is dirty, has cuts and bruises and he is limping. He takes a drink and excuses himself to be cleaned up.

When he returns, his guests are eating dinner. They are relaying the story of the experiment to the Journalist and the Editor. The atmosphere is one of disbelief and ridicule. The Time Traveler is starving for meat and eats voraciously. The narrator asks him if...