Had not her husband been a great student ?...

Had he not taken her to the Andes in search of prehistoric beasts ?...
Freya hesitated a moment in order to be sure, but her doubts were short.
"So he was," she said as a matter of course.

"That professor was my second husband.

I have been married twice." The captain had not time to express his surprise.

Over the top of the tank, on the crystalline surface silvered by the sun, passed a human shadow.