fact

He had a solid grip of fact and a cool, clear, common-sense brain, which should take him some way in his profession.

You know it as a fact.”

“The mere fact that the ring should be absent, whoever may have removed it, would suggest to anyone’s mind, would it not, that the marriage and the tragedy were connected?”

In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older.