The story starts in the time travelers house with his guest discussing his Time Machine and how it works. The perspective starts out from the view of a guest at the dinner. The Narrator listens to the Time Traveler explain how the machine works in a lenghty diffusion of the 4th dimension. Everyone at first seem skeptical of him, and question his machine. He then activate the time machine, which is about the size of a clock from the times, and the people are shocked as it disappears,.
The next day dinner guest arrive and our instructed to start without their host. He arrives at the party looking very worn out and the narrator suggest to the other guest he has been time travailing. They all are skeptic of him, until he begins to explain his story which begins in the next chapter.