1)What theme is emerging?

2)How did the Time Traveller get inside the Sphinx to retrieve the time machine?

3)According to chapter 9, “Yet it was evident that if I was to flourish matches with my hands I should have to abandon my firewood; so, rather reluctantly, I put it down. And then it came into my head that I would amaze our friends behind by lighting it. I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering our retreat.

Why was amazing “his friends” by lighting the firewood an “atrocious folly”?