Read this excerpt from The First Men in the Moon The world outside the sphere, I knew, would be cold and inhospitable enough for me—for weeks I had been living on subsidies from Cavor—but after all, would it be as cold as the infinite zero, as inhospitable as empty space? If it had not been for the appearance of cowardice, I believe that even then I should have made him let me out. But I hesitated on that score, and hesitated, and grew fretful and angry, and the time passed.

What inference can the reader make about Mr. Bedford based on the excerpt above?

He is afraid to go back out into the world.

He is feeling cold and unwelcomed.

He is ashamed that he has been a coward.

He is regretting his decision to go with Mr. Cavor.