While reading other posts on the H, G Wells The Time Machine and reading the confusion from some people about the story line, i would like to just mention that if you read up about the author H G Wells, how he grew up during the English Victorian Industrial Revolution era, the Novella of the Time Machine will make more sense. there is significance to issues such as disease, social status, and distinction between different classes of people. in the Novella this is shown between the Morlocks and the Eloi's. if you compare the living conditions and standards of family life, social status, working conditions and so on, you will have a deeper understanding of the Novella, this short story is not just about time travel and the things seen along the way. the story represents living conditions, social status and so on, during the period in time when H G Wells wrote this Novella.