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The Time Machine

End of last part:

DAVID: What aboutanimal? Did you see it?

GEORGE: No, I didn't. It was too fast for us.

DAVID: Perhaps we'd better go back, George.girl seems to be alright now.

GEORGE: Do you think that we should leave her like this?

DAVID: Yes, yes, I've had enough.

GEORGE: Well they haven't old man, because they're here, all around us.

Part 2

[DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT]

DAVID: They had very quietly surrounded us ...little people of this time. Andgirl we'd saved was notchild, butfull grown woman. They all stood five feet high and wore simple tunics.

They were beautiful creatures, but frail and plump. They were like figures in dream. They moved happily around us, their faces in smiles.

DAVID: Why, they're not savage at all. They're very loving and gentle little people.

GEORGE: Yes. But there's something terribly wrong with them.

DAVID: How do you mean? What is wrong?

GEORGE: They seem to haveminds of five year olds.

DAVID: Well, how do you expect them to be?

GEORGE: Far ahead of us, of course. This isfuture. They should be ahead of us in knowledge and science. But look at them! They are like children!

DAVID: They seem to be happy, in this huge garden of theirs. Uh, George, I've changed my mind. Let's stay. Maybe we should enjoy spendingfew days with our little friends.

[DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT]

DAVID:little people led us home, into their valley. We learned they were calledEloi.Eloi lived in a colossal building.

They slept all together in one huge hall, ate in another, and played in sunshine. And we lived with them for days, in complete contentment. One afternoon, George and I walked alongside ofgreat river.

GEORGE:Eloi all wearsame clothes, and havesame soft, hairless skin.

DAVID: I wonder if it's because they're all vegetarians.

GEORGE: They're vegetarians because they have to be. You haven't come across any horses, or dogs, or cattle of any kind, have you?

DAVID: No, now that you mention it!

GEORGE: With good reason, all of them are extinct by now. Just likedinosaur is with us.

DAVID: George, there's something strange here, something hidden away. Silent.

GEORGE: I feltsame way. I've takenprecaution of removingcontrol levers oftime machine.

I don't much likeidea of someone riding away with it into another century and leaving us here forrest of our lives.

[DAVID LOOKS AROUND WHERE THEY ARE STANDING]

DAVID: Uh, George, do you know where we are?

GEORGE: Uh, yes, isn't this where we landed?

DAVID: I thought so. I wasn't sure. . .

GEORGE: Why did you ask?

DAVID: What's happened totime machine?

GEORGE: What? They've taken it away. They've stolen it!

DAVID: This is where it was. It was right here.

GEORGE: Look! David! Look at these marks onground! You can see here where they've pulledmachine. Over here! Come along!

[DAVID AND GEORGE WALK QUICKLY]

GEORGE: Down this path! Look! Right there! That huge building, that monument.

DAVID: (pointing atbuilding) See those brass doors.

[DAVID AND GEORGE POUND ONDOOR]

DAVID:door are locked!

GEORGE:machine! It must be in there!

DAVID: Yes!

GEORGE: Inside! We must get in there! Break downdoors!

DAVID: How, how can we?

GEORGE: Here, useladders!

DAVID: Alright, I'll try

[DAVID HITSDOORS WITHLADDER]

DAVID: It's no good, George! They're solid! We'll never break through!

GEORGE: Never? Never? We've got to break through!

DAVID: We may never go home again!

GEORGE:time machine! We have to gettime machine!

[DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT]

DAVID: We were caught in year eight hundred and two thousand, seven hundred and one (802701)!.time machine was gone.brass doors ofmonument couldn't be opened.

We couldn't leave. We couldn't go back to our home . . . back to our own time. Our own people. Back to eighteen ninety-eight (1899).

And we had no way of communicating withlittle people. Of asking them what they had done withmachine! There was nothing hostile in their attitude. They were more like simple children. Only one,young woman, Weena, whose life we had saved on first day, became really friendly.

Weena went with us wherever we walked and brought us flowers and slept near us at night in hall. And we in turn had taught herfew words in English. Now, we tried to teach her even more so that we might speak to her and discoversecret ofloss of our time machine. We were talking to her one night afterothers had gone to sleep . . .

WEENA: No, not us, George, no.

GEORGE: How can you be so sure your people,Eloi, didn't stealmachine? Aren't there any thieves amongEloi? Are they all perfect?

DAVID: Not so loud, George. You'll wake them. Besides, she doesn't understand.

GEORGE:thief must be sleeping somewhere in this hall. Weena, one ofEloi tookmachine.

WEENA: No, George, no.

GEORGE: Who then? Who? We must havemachine, Weena.

WEENA: Yes, George, yes.

GEORGE: Who took machine? Other people? Not yours?

WEENA: Other people?

DAVID: What about those doors, Weena?doors, can you open them?

WEENA: No! No!

GEORGE: Weena,machine. If it is in there, we must opendoors.

WEENA: No! No! Don't open them!

GEORGE: Alright, go to sleep. Get some rest.

WEENA: Yes, George.

GEORGE: What's to become of us, David? Are we caught here in this century? To spend our lives withlittle people and their secret?

DAVID: We'll go back tomonument tomorrow. We'll findway of breaking in . Goodnight George. . . (PAUSE) George?. . .George!

GEORGE: Yeah?...

DAVID: Did you just?. . .There it was again!

GEORGE: What?

DAVID: Something was on my face. It felt cold and dirty! On my face and in my hair! It's cold! It's death! George!

GEORGE: You're right, there's something in here with us! And it smells like death! What was it?

DAVID: I don't know! But look at them! Look at little people!

GEORGE: They look so afraid! Something has scared all of them! Let's go out right now! Let's get out of here!