Question

select the correct text in the passage.
which sentence in this excerpt from the time machine by h. g. wells indicates that the narrator has little hope for the time traveller’s return?
i felt an unreasonable amazement. i knew that something strange had happened, and for the moment could not distinguish what the strange thing might be. as i stood staring, the door into the garden opened, and the man - servant appeared.
we looked at each other. then ideas began to come. \has mr. —— gone out that way?\ said i.

o, sir. no one has come out this way. i was expecting to find him here.\
at that i understood. at the risk of disappointing richardson i stayed on, waiting for the time traveller; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him. but i am beginning now to fear that i must wait a lifetime. the time traveller vanished three years ago. and, as everybody knows now, he has never returned.

Explanation:

This sentence directly conveys the narrator's growing despair, realizing his wait for the Time Traveller could last his entire life, which shows he has little hope for the traveller's return. The final sentence confirms the traveller never came back, but the sentence about fearing a lifetime wait is the explicit indicator of the narrator's lost hope.

Answer:

But I am beginning now to fear that I must wait a lifetime.