Where does the time traveller find weapons in the time machine?

in a dark part of the museum, he's reminded of the morlocks. to protect himself, he pulls off a piece of metal from one of the machines on display to use as a mace. (he describes the piece of metal as looking like a lever from a signal box, which would look something like this. also, when he says "mace," this is what he means. it's basically a club.)   now that he has a weapon, he wants to go kill some morlocks. but he doesn't want to leave weena alone.

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in at least 150 words, discuss the tone of the narrator in "i stand here ironing," and explain how it impacts the telling of the story