Which sentence in this excerpt from the time machine by hg 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 mi g one out that way? " said i
"no, 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.