facts

I was firmly resolved, when you left me in charge this morning, not to imagine anything, but keep my thoughts on facts.

Jane asked him what on earth he was doing and he said he was repeating the multiplication table over and over to steady his nerves and for pity’s sake not to interrupt him, because if he stopped for a moment he got frightened and forgot everything he ever knew, but the multiplication table kept all his facts firmly in their proper place!

Certain facts had become generally accepted.

Wickham should invent such a history of himself as he gave me last night; names, facts, everything mentioned without ceremony.