Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu. Which phrase best completes the writer’s explanation? in the novella the time machine by h. G. Wells, the narrator expects that the future will be more advanced, but he instead encounters simple creatures: "as they made no effort to communicate with me, but simply stood round me smiling and speaking in soft cooing notes to each other. " however, i would propose that perhaps the creatures’ communication was more advanced. Perhaps they.