But Grant was not smiling as he drove lunchwards. Christine Clay's husband and her reputed lover had midnight business together. That was strange enough.
Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas — which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year — and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
The suddenness of her reputed illness, the absence of her daughter, and probably of her other children, at the time—all favoured the supposition of her imprisonment.
It is reputed to have been invented in China sometime around the late 18th century CE and then carried over to America and Europe by trading ships shortly after.
No less a scientist than Rutherford is reputed to have said that any Anglo-Saxon would have the sense to see that the theory of relativity is nonsense.